Posts on Friday, June 26, 2020
Calvin Klein has officially ushered in its “transqueer lesbian” era with the creation of a giant Jari Jones billboard in Manhattan. The famous brand associated with names such as Mark Wahlberg, Kate Moss, Zoe Saldana and Joan Smalls over the decades is celebrating Pride Month with the hashtag #PROUDINMYCALVINS, along with work by nine LGBTQ models. The activist celebrated this week by popping a bottle of champagne in front of the ad while multiple outlets celebrated the company’s first black transqueer model. “Without a doubt, this is a powerful moment not just for Jones, but for all non-conforming Black folks out there,” CNN reported Friday.
The Anglican church should rethink depictions of Jesus as a white man in traditional Christian imagery, the head of the Church of England said Friday. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, was asked in an interview with BBC Radio 4 if the Western mindset that Jesus looked Caucasian needs to be reconsidered in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. “Yes of course it does, this sense that God was white … You go into churches [around the world] and you don’t see a white Jesus,” he said. “You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle-Eastern Jesus—which is of course the most accurate
Have we become a nation of toddlers?
Even as our country is grappling with weighty questions about history, racism, and how to deal with a pandemic, we’re seeing an explosion of behavior as rational as that of a small child, high on sugar-laced juice boxes, throwing a tantrum.
Just consider these examples from the past few days.
In a video captured by The Daily Caller’s Henry Rodgers, a white woman is “racesplaining” to African-American police officers. “You’re white, and you’re telling this to two black police officers. Do you see the problem with that a little bit?” asks Rodgers.
“Um, no, I don’t, because you know what?
A man critically injured in one of the shootings inside Seattle’s chaotic, cop-free CHAZ claims it was a hate crime committed by racist infiltrators who dropped the N-word. DeJuan Young told KIRO 7 that he was fleeing the sound of gunshots from where a teenager was shot dead early Saturday when he was accosted by at least four men who dropped a racial slur when they shot him. (Snip) Young says he is angry at the lack of help from cops — even though he concedes keeping them away was central to the protest. “I understand everybody’s going to say
The Supreme Court declined to reinstate an earlier district court ruling forcing Texas officials to provide mail-in ballots to all voters in the state.The high court rejected a request from the Texas Democratic Party on Friday to override a decision issued by a panel of judges on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which placed a stay on a district court order that extended mail-in voting provisions to Texans."The application to vacate stay presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied," the Supreme Court's rejection read.
In an absurd rant Tuesday night, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell, gave President Trump a new nasty nickname in hopes of impacting the 2020 election, “Dracula Trump.” Since the President spoke at a Students for Trump event in Phoenix, Arizona, O’Donnell has decided to characterize him as the blood-sucking fictional character.(Video) O’Donnell, who has long been an activist for the Democratic Party and its left-wing agenda, painted President Trump as one of the world’s most famous villains: But he did a profoundly cruel and inhumane thing by encouraging those kids to gather shoulder to shoulder, sitting before him in praise of him.
Flint—An 18-year-old Mount Morris Township man has been charged and is being sought in the assault of a manager at the Macy’s department store in the Genesee Valley Center. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton announced Damire Canell Palmer is charged in a not-in-custody warrant with intent to do great bodily harm, a 10-year felony, in the attack on the 50-year-old manager who was working in the men’s clothing section around 5:30 p.m. on June 15.(Snip) “We don’t believe any racial slur was made by the store manager, and even if there had been, it does not condone
The latest data show that death rates from coronavirus or COVID-19 are stable or falling in many states, including those that have shown a recent spike in the number of coronavirus cases. On Friday, Texas and Florida paused their re-openings, as both states showed a surge in new COVID-19 cases. At the same time, data from the New York Times COVID-19 dataset, obtained on GitHub, shows that death rates in Texas and Florida are falling, at least for now. Death rates were calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of confirmed cases, as of each date reported. They are expressed as a percentage of known coronavirus
A federal judge ruled on Friday that New York State violated the First Amendment by restricting religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic while simultaneously allowing both much larger protests sparked by the death of George Floyd and the opening of other activities and businesses. Senior U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and sits in Albany, issued a preliminary injunction that voids parts of an executive order issued by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo three months ago that included a fine against anyone who gathered in excess of set limits. Included in the injunction Sharpe issued Friday is a prohibition on “enforcing any limitation
Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel has implored anti-racism campaigners not to tear down statues because they serve as grave reminders of past atrocities. The activist said: 'I believe even it might be much more positive to keep them because you are going to tell generations to come "this is how it started and this is how it should never be."' Her remarks put her at loggerheads with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who today revealed he would be reviewing statues at Canterbury Cathedral. Justin Welby said monuments would be looked at 'very carefully' to see if they all 'should be there'. In a wide-ranging interview, he also urged the West
The DNC panic is palpable
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Circumventing the rigors of election campaigning and hiding Joe Biden from the American public, the DNC just announced there won't be a large Democrat conclave in August, blaming the COVID-19 pandemic. Going forward, Mr. Biden will continue a tightly controlled, wholly scripted campaign from the basement of his Delaware home, concluding with a "virtual" nomination. Upon affirmation, he will then travel to Milwaukee to deliver his acceptance speech to an empty arena. In fact, Tom Perez, DNC chairman, informed the delegates they aren't welcome in Wisconsin. And while the DNC isn't planning to completely scrap the entirety of their convention programming,
Joe Biden has likely winnowed down his vice presidential preferences to a final four, CNN reported Friday. More than a dozen people close to the process told the network that the quartet of 'leading prospects' are Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, who competed against Biden in the Democratic primary, along with Rep. Val Demings, Orlando's former police chief, and Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta. Other women are still being vetted including Susan Rice, President Obama's national security adviser, Rep. Karen Bass of California and Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Tammy Duckworth, CNN said.
Newark—The city of Newark has removed a statue of Christopher Columbus from Washington Park, Mayor Ras Baraka announced Friday in a series of tweets.
"In keeping with the movement to remove symbols of oppression and white supremacy, we have decided to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from Washington Park," Baraka wrote. "We took it down with city work crews in a safe and orderly manner, to avoid the potential danger of people taking it upon themselves to topple it."(Snip) The statue of Columbus was made in Rome and presented in 1927 to the city by its Italian community.
“Ancestors are watching today,” Niambi Aaliyah McCoy Thursday told the crowd of about 75 people who gathered in front of the statue of Christopher Columbus in a park in Trenton that bears his name. The demonstrators were there to decry police violence, and call for the removal of the statue.
”This isn’t a protest,” McCoy said.(Snip) Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora, speaking in a News12 report after last week’s vandalism of the statue, expressed a desire to not destroy it. “It could be boxed up and removed,” he said. “That’s going to be a community discussion we’re going to have.
Joe Biden’s present lead in the polls is a levitation. These are the dangling entrails of the panic that the national political media, which are unofficially conducting the Democratic campaign in the unheroic absence of the putative nominee, have sown about the coronavirus and the impression, desperately promoted, identifying Trump with the recent chaos.
A public opinion climate worn down by lengthy social confinement, arrested economic activity, and high unemployment is especially vulnerable to disgruntlement about its leaders. Given the pandemic, the recession, and the worst rioting in America in over fifty years, Trump has done well to maintain his approval rating in the mid-forties.
Lincoln’s New Assassins
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Now the mob takes the role of John Wilkes Booth in removing perhaps the greatest of all Lincoln sculptures, the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, located in northeast Washington, D.C. The preeminent Lincoln scholar of our or any other time, Harry V. Jaffa, said many times that this sculpture, originally referred to as the Freedman’s Memorial, rivaled Daniel French’s Lincoln Memorial creation. The statue was dedicated to honor Lincoln on the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Yet the furious mob blindly objects that the statue shows a kneeling slave before a standing Lincoln.
Barack Obama has reflected on and celebrated the progress of the LGBTQ community since the Stonewall Riots in a video message shared during a Stonewall Livestream benefit. On Friday, the former US president participated in Pride Live's third annual Stonewall Day celebration along with other notable figures including Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Ellen DeGeneres, Demi Lovato and Kesha. “We’re almost 51 years since the night when the patrons of the Stonewall Inn stood up for their rights and set off one of America’s defining victories for civil rights,” Mr Obama said. “Because the movement they sparked, and the decades of work that followed, marriage equality became
Federal Election Watchdog Crippled Once
Again Following Resignation Of Republican
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Again Following Resignation Of Republican
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Longtime Republican Federal Election Commission appointee Caroline Hunter announced she will resign from the watchdog July 3, leaving the commission once again incapable of enforcing federal campaign finance laws.The FEC needs at least four members to meet a quorum, let alone make any major enforcement actions on federal election matters. The watchdog had been crippled with only three commissioners for nearly a year until mid-May when the Senate confirmed Texas attorney Trey Trainor to become the watchdog’s fourth active commissioner.The FEC, which is designed to have six commissioners, issued advisory opinions on three minor campaign finance matters last week
CNN’s Lemon: Trump’s Message Is ‘Scary
Black People’ Are Trying to Take Away
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Black People’ Are Trying to Take Away
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Friday on SiriusXM radio’s “The Dean Obeidallah,” CNN host Don Lemon said President Donald Trump is promoting a message of fear of “scary black people” taking away “white people’s America.”Obeidallah said. “It seems like he’s so out of touch with America, he’s just like an angry old man yelling about things that are changing.”Lemon said, “It’s easy to fall back on stereotypes. It’s easy to make the black man the boogeyman, right? Fear. He is using fear to scare people, ‘Oh my gosh, these scary black people want to take away the world that you know, the America that you created. which is not true.
Dixie Beer will join a growing list of U.S. companies changing their names in light of the sweeping protests against systemic racism across the country, billionaire owner Gayle Benson announced Friday. “With inclusive input from all of our community stakeholders, we are preparing to change the name of our brewery and products that carry the Dixie brand and these conversations will determine what brand will best represent our culture and community,” said Benson, who owns the New Orleans Saints football team and NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans.(Snip) Benson said she recognizes the “critical conversations” that are going on around the nation about the “immeasurable pain
A key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for bringing a teenage boy to the United States for sex and possessing child pornography.
George Nader, a lobbyist whose name appears more than 100 times in Mr. Mueller’s report on Russian election interference, pleaded guilty in January to both charges. He was sentenced to 10 years on each charge, but a federal judge said the sentences could be served concurrently.(Snip) Nader was also accused of bringing a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to his D.C. home in 2000, and using him for sex.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley said on the House floor that the Black Lives Matter movement is a “mandate,” and the time has come for people to “pay us what you owe us.” “I rise today on behalf of every black family that has been robbed of a child,” the Massachusetts congresswoman and member of “the Squad,” said. “On behalf of every family member that has been forced to see their loved one lynched on national television. Driving while black. Jogging while black. Sleeping while black. We have been criminalized for the very way we show up in the world. Under the
The CEO of Brooks Brothers sent out a letter to customers last week expressing support of the objectives of the Black Lives Matter movement, which include a plan to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family,” and “dismantle cisgender privilege.”
Brooks Brothers, the oldest men’s clothier in the United States, is headquartered on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, and owned by the Italian billionaire Claudio Del Vecchio.
In the letter, Del Vecchio stated that he wanted to make clear that Brooks Brothers opposes “hatred, racial bias, and inequality of any kind” during this “very painful moment for the United States.”
Attorney General William Barr confirmed on Thursday that there are currently over 500 investigations being carried out by the Department of Justice against those who have been involved in widespread rioting over the last month, as reported by The Daily Caller.
Barr made the announcement on Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) podcast “The Verdict,” stating that “we’ve had scores of indictments so far for such things as arson, destruction of federal property,” and that they are “picking up pace.”
As has been previously reported, there have already been over 70 indictments across the country on federal charges. Barr’s comments come nearly one month after President Trump officially declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization,
NEW YORK — Microsoft said Friday it is permanently closing nearly all of its physical stores around the world. Like other retailers, the software and computing giant had to temporarily close all of its stores in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft has 83 stores, including 72 stores in the U.S., where it showcases and sells laptops and other hardware. The company says it will "reimagine" spaces that serve all customers, including operating Microsoft Experience Centers in London, NYC, Sydney, and Redmond campus locations. Friday’s announcement reflects what the company calls a “strategic change” for its retail .
The Columbus Calumny
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I have lived in the East Bronx neighborhood of Morris Park practically my entire life. Predominantly Italian until recently, Morris Park still retains a strong Italian flavor.
The Italian language of the neighborhood Nonas fills my ears; the first dishes I cooked without Mom’s help were all Italian (the ingredients purchased at nearby fruit and vegetable stands, butchers, and delis brimming with goods imported from Italy); when my parents took the family on the Grand Tour of Europe, naturally Italy was on the itinerary.
I am not Italian by birth, but I am by osmosis. Therefore, I feel very acutely the anguish of the Italian community throughout the East Bronx,
The mainstream media and Democrats simply can’t seem to make up their minds when it comes to the radical left-wing anarchistic group Antifa. They’re either 1) modern-day versions of the WWII Normandy beach heroes and saving America from alt-right racists, 2) a fringe group joining up with white supremacist agitators to disrupt peaceful protests in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, or 3) they … simply don’t exist.
That they are a mythical creation was posited by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) during a Thursday debate on the Democratic-led House’s police reform bill.
Nadler(Snip) stated on the House floor that Republicans were “dealing with imaginary things like Antifa”:
An Atlanta man charged with arson, damaging property and inciting a riot during the city’s first night of demonstrations last month was granted bond Friday afternoon. Dramerius Jeffries faces several charges in connection with the May 29 protests after he was seen standing on a burning police car and a defaced sign outside the CNN Center, authorities said. Those charges include arson, inciting a riot, criminal damage to property, reckless conduct and obstruction of law enforcement by using threats or violence, Fulton County Jail records show.(Snip) “The officers who witnessed him committing the felonies were unable to arrest him at the scene
Atlanta—Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday signed legislation allowing additional penalties to be imposed for crimes motivated by a victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation or other factors, removing Georgia from the dwindling list of U.S. states without a hate crimes law. State lawmakers acted with haste to pass the legislation, which had previously been stalled, following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, as well as recent nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality.(Snip) Kemp, a Republican, said Friday before signing the bill that it “does not fix every problem or right every wrong. But this bipartisan legislation is a powerful step forward.
On Today’s Episode of ‘Joe Being Joe,’
Biden Adds a Few Zeroes to America’s
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Biden Adds a Few Zeroes to America’s
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To paraphrase Ronald Reagan’s “There you go again” admonition to Jimmy Carter during a 1980 presidential debate, there Joe went again, with yet another laugh-out-loud gaffe.
Biden emerged from his basement on Thursday for a campaign trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ostensibly to unveil his healthcare proposals, when he added a few zeroes to the Wuhan virus U.S. death count.
“People don’t have a job, people don’t know where to go, they don’t know what to do,” the former vice president said in Lancaster on Thursday, Fox News reported. “Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.”
There has been some critical comments around the internet about the majority opinion by Judge Rao, in which it is said that she stopped Judge Sullivan from having a hearing on the DOJ motion to dismiss the case against General Flynn, and then asserted a lack of evidence of wrongdoing as a basis to direct Judge Sullivan to to dismiss the case — when the hearing she won’t allow is the vehicle for developing the very evidence she says he needs.(snip) some (Snip)are posing hypotheticals about how far advocates of a broad “separation of powers” argument would be willing to go to use it as a “shield” to insulate Executive
Police Scotland said a male suspect was shot by an armed unit and an officer is in a critical but stable condition. The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) confirmed a male officer had been stabbed and their family has been informed.All six injured people, including the officer, are being treated in hospital. There are reports, currently unconfirmed, of two other fatalities.(Snip) The incident appeared to happen at the Park Inn Hotel in West George Street. A spokeswoman for campaign group Positive Action In Housing said the 91-room hotel was housing asylum seekers for the Mears Group, which moved them there during the coronavirus lockdown.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump did not have the legal power to siphon money from the Pentagon to build his border wall, erecting another legal hurdle in the path of his most flamboyant campaign promise. The 2-1 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes just two days after Mr. Trump visited the wall in Arizona, signing his name to a plaque marking 200 miles of construction during his term. In the new decision Judge Sidney R. Thomas, a Clinton appointee, said the wall is not a military project, so Mr. Trump couldn’t transfer $2.5 billion
Former US attorney: Flynn case was
'manipulated' at highest levels of Obama
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'manipulated' at highest levels of Obama
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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's rights were violated and he should consider a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and former Obama administration officials, former U.S. attorney Brett Tolman said Friday on "Fox & Friends."
"That's why there is an action called a Bivens action. That is to go after a federal investigator that violates someone's constitutional rights. It's specific for that occasion and I hope is he looking at it strongly,” (Snip)
Flynn’s lawyers said this week that newly uncovered notes from former FBI official Peter Strzok indicate then-FBI Director James Comey appeared to downplay Flynn’s calls during the presidential transition with Russia's ambassador as “legit” during a meeting where
A white Sacramento woman was punched in the face after she twice called a black woman the n-word during a fight in a convenience store. In the shocking footage, which was posted on social media, the unidentified middle-aged white woman is heard making the racial slur at the younger black woman during a shouting match in a California 7-Eleven on Monday.(Snip) It is not clear what initially triggered the dispute but the white woman repeatedly shouts 'all I said was excuse me'. 'Wash your mouth,' the black woman is heard telling her. As the shouting continues, the white woman
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is now offering $20,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of a man and woman wanted in connection with several St. Paul business fires during recent unrest in the Twin Cities.
Jose Felan, Jr., described as being a felon with multiple convictions, was captured on video setting fires at numerous St. Paul locations, including Gordon Parks High School.
The ATF reports Mena Dyaha Yousif, Felan's girlfriend and accomplice, is believed to be helping Felan evade law enforcement officials.
MINNEAPOLIS—The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a proposal to change the city charter to allow the police department to be dismantled, following mass public criticism of law enforcement over the killing of George Floyd.The 12-0 vote is just the first step in a process that faces significant bureaucratic obstacles to make the November ballot, where the city’s voters would have the final say. And it came amid a spate of recent shootings in Minnesota’s largest city that have heightened many citizens’ concerns about talk of dismantling the department.The proposed amendment next goes to a policy committee and to the city’s Charter Commission for a formal review,
The presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden and former Guam Gov. Eddie Baza Calvo, a Trump campaign surrogate, will participate in a digital presidential town hall Saturday focusing on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues.The forum, hosted by APIAVote, will focus on policy issues and questions from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. NBC Asian America will stream the town hall at 3 p.m. ET on its social media accounts. The forum video will also be embedded at the top of this article.This forum takes place at a particularly unique time for the community, with economic and social upheavals caused by the coronavirus and increased calls for racial justice together
"American cities should burn to the ground in revenge for the death of George Floyd."
When this sentiment came through my Facebook feed, I checked the home address of the poster. "Zelda," the lovely white woman who wishes to witness American cities succumb to a bloodthirsty holocaust of vengeance, hails from Palos Verdes Estates, California. (snip) To me, America, with all its flaws, and my life, with all its limitations, are blessed. Zelda's desire to see her own country incinerated is incomprehensible.
During an interview on “Verdict” with Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles, Attorney General Bill Barr provided some frank answers on several issues. (Snip)
The interview opened with Barr answering questions about federal law enforcement agencies’ role in addressing the unrest and lawlessness that has been occurring nationwide. Barr responded that federal action is taken after the fact. It is up to state and local leaders to prevent these crimes from happening.
He did note that when the violence began at the end of May, the thirty-five Joint Terrorism Task Force teams were activated nationwide. These are cooperative teams of local, state, and federal agencies that are built to deal with terroristic threats.
Protesters lit fires and looted and damaged businesses in North Portland early Friday morning, Portland Police Bureau said.
According to police, protesters first met at Fernhill Park Thursday evening before marching to the bureau's North Precinct at Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Northeast Emerson Street.
At around 10 p.m., police said several hundred people had gathered outside the precinct. The demonstrators arrived with supplies and began erecting a fence (snip) While building the fence, police said the demonstrators blocked northbound traffic on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
(snip) At around 2:15 a.m., demonstrators had set the north side of the North Precinct on fire.
A baseball bat-wielding attacker bashed a complete stranger in the head during an unprovoked attack at a Bronx shopping mall, officials said Thursday. The 34-year-old victim told police that he and his girlfriend were leaving a Home Depot at the Bronx Terminal Market in Concourse Village about 8:10 p.m. on June 14 when the unhinged suspect, who was walking a mountain bicycle and had a bat slung over his shoulder, stormed up to him. The victim, who spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity, said he and his girlfriend noticed the attacker out of the corner of their eye
The FBI is refusing to release documents related to the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele, saying in response to a public records request that the information is classified and risks identifying a confidential FBI source.The source, whose identity remains a mystery, holds key information that could shed light on apparent inaccuracies in Steele’s dossier, which the FBI cited extensively in applications for surveillance orders against Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The decision, which the FBI made in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Daily Caller News Foundation, comes as Republican lawmakers have increasingly accused the FBI and its director,
1968 Again
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I have never been quite able to make up my mind whether there is no new thing under the sun or whether we live in completely unprecedented times. When we look at events close up and nearby in time and place, we are inclined to think that nothing like them has ever happened before; but with the passage of time, and a little calm reflection, we find analogies all over the place.(Snip)I flicked through a large picture book of May 1968 in Paris, the upheaval of spoilt brats, by spoilt brats, for spoilt brats.(Snip)The students obviously liked to make a mess; it was, so to speak, their natural milieu, as
500,000 people created accounts on the social media platform Parler after Twitter banned two conservative accounts Tuesday. Parler’s user base increased by 50% this week, bringing the total number of users to over 1.5 million, Mediaite reported Thursday.
The surge comes after Twitter permanently banned the account of Carpe Donktum, and locked the account of The National Pulse Editor-In-Chief Raheem Kassam. Both accounts, which were locked Tuesday, have over 200,000 followers. Conservatives, who were already frustrated with Twitter for what they say is arbitrary and unfair banning of right-wing accounts, flocked to Parler after the two accounts were suspended.
Taking over a crime-ridden New York City in 1993, Mayor Rudy Giuliani applied the Broken Windows Theory approach to crime in which small crimes are enforced as a means to create an atmosphere of law and order.
Liberals have for 20 years denied his success reducing crime as mayor had anything to do with him, much less this theory.
But under Obama, liberals began proving Giuliani was most correct. Today, as the Black Liberation Movement (aka Black Lives Matter) takes over cities, Democrat-run cities are turning into shooting galleries. (Snip)In Atlanta, traffic stops are down 80%. No big deal? Total arrests are down 71%. The cops have walked off the job while
Today, NASCAR released a picture of the garage pull-down rope and knot that both they and Bubba Wallace described as a “noose hanging over the car“.
Except it clearly was not hanging over the car, and it clearly wasn’t a “noose” or it wouldn’t function to help pull the door down. Driver Bubba Wallace now calls it “a non-functioning noose.” Or, in simple terms, a garage pull-down rope with a loop-knot tied in the end.
However, what NASCAR does not yet realize is the picture they have provided actually makes the situation worse; because the picture shows something else, something worse:
The daughter of a candidate running for a seat in the Michigan state House has drawn viral attention online after taking to Twitter earlier this week to plead with voters not to elect her father to office. In the viral tweet, which has racked up more than 159,000 likes in the past two days, Stephanie Regan, the daughter of Republican state House candidate Robert Regan, writes, “If you’re in Michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. Tell everyone.”
In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Michael Flynn’s petition for a writ of mandamus and ordered federal district court Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the criminal charge against Flynn. (Snip)n not reassigning the Flynn case, the majority in In re Flynn handed Sullivan a face-saving out, but will the longtime federal judge accept defeat or escalate matters, firmly proving his judicial bias and own intemperance? (Snip)as the respondent to Flynn’s petition for mandamus, Sullivan has the same options a normal litigant would have, including seeking review of the panel decision by the entire D.C. Circuit or requesting review by the United States Supreme Court.
Families who’ve lost loved ones in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, patient advocates and attorneys are blasting an executive order issued by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that they said protect an industry with a long history of issues. (Snip) Under the Freedom of Information Act, Stevens requested all correspondence from members of the governor’s office in relation to the order. She said she found hospital CEOs and lobbyists for the nursing home industry were consulted but not patient advocates.
“It was very clear on who was being consulted and who was being left out,” Stevens said.
The world needs an overarching level of multilateral governance that can sideline problematic “national interests” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he lamented existing U.N. instruments such as the Security Council have teeth but “show little or no appetite to bite.” As the world body on Friday commemorates the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. Charter, the founding instrument of the globalist organisation, Guterres said there is a need to “re-imagine the way nations cooperate.” “We need a networked multilateralism, bringing together the U.N. system, regional organisations,
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would compel Americans to wear masks in public if elected president.In an interview with Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA, Biden said that he would use federal power to “mandate” masks. Q: I know you have been critical of the president’s handling of the pandemic in the past. But let’s look ahead. If you became president tomorrow, what would you do differently regarding the pandemic and getting these surging cases now under control? Biden: I would go back to making sure that everybody had masks, that you had PPE [personal protective equipment] lined up, we’d have been making sure we stockpile
Some conservatives have begun speculating the unrest in American cities—even as late as Monday night in Washington, DC, as “protestors” unsuccessfully worked to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson and set up an autonomous zone across the street from the White House—may in part be an attempt to affect the upcoming presidential election, with the chaos and violence intended to make it as difficult as possible for Donald Trump to win a second term.
Lending credence to this idea is the fact that at least one board member of Thousand Currents...
Orlando, Fla.—First, the country music trio, The Dixie Chicks, dropped the 'Dixie' from their name. Could Winn-Dixie be next? According to TMZ, the southern supermarket chain is considering changing its name. The term Dixie reportedly refers to Southern U.S. states, especially those that belonged to the Confederacy. A Winn-Dixie spokesperson reportedly told TMZ: "At Southeastern Grocers, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive culture and community that promotes belonging, inclusion, and diversity. As such, we stand against racism and support the Black Lives Matter movement across our country." "While our Winn-Dixie banner has proudly served our communities for nearly 100 years,
Insults to Black History
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Many whites are ashamed, saddened and feel guilty about our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. Many black people remain angry over the injustices of the past and what they see as injustices of the present. Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of black history.
Often overlooked or ignored is the fact that, as a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, and in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in history.
For example, if one totaled up the earnings and spending of black Americans
As I noted in today’s Morning Jolt — which I’m writing this week while the inestimable Jim Geraghty is on vacation — the latest “anti-racist” campaign targeting statues for forcible erasure is being directed at the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedmen’s Memorial.
This effort, announced publicly by a mob that intends to tear down the monument tomorrow evening, is also being backed by D.C.’s non-voting congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has raised several ill-founded objections to the memorial’s continued presence in Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill.The memorial, Holmes Norton avers, is no longer a fitting monument for our times
In this modern Bonfire of Inanities, ignorance reigns supreme. Which is one of the big problems with mob “justice,” a painful lesson we history students here in America learned a long time ago.
Not that this current crop of uneducated, stupid, self-enthralled miscreants rioting in public streets and parks has the slightest grasp on five minutes of history. Or, wisdom for that matter.
This is what post-Obama America looks like. Or, as President Trump calls it, “Joe Biden’s America.”History is dead. Intelligence is weakness. Wisdom is scorned. Justice is the punchline to a sick joke.
Love him or hate him, Mr. Trump ran for president on a set of concrete promises.
In every presidential election where there’s a Republican incumbent, the drumbeat begins: “Oh, the president is so partisan – so divisive. Why isn’t he bringing us together? Why isn’t he uniting the American people?”
Earlier this month, former Defense Secretary James Mattis whined: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
Apparently, Mattis wasn’t alive when Barack Obama was president. His quest for unity started as a candidate, when he described Middle Americans as bitterly clinging to religion, guns and anti-immigrant sentiments – in other words, as fanatics, gun nuts and xenophobes.
Since 2020’s craziness began, Tucker Carlson has been brilliant. (snip) demoralization was front and center in Carlson’s monologue on Thursday night. He opened by saying there’s a good chance that Trump can lose the election, making Biden president. (snip) I think Tucker’s wrong. Trump is not silent because of fear or exhaustion. Instead, he’s pursuing a deliberate strategy. Whether it works is another thing, but there’s a strong rationale and intelligence behind Trump’s response to both the virus and the riots.
As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn’t there: “What you’re looking at, in my humble opinion, is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.” And not just Communism, but the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren’t paying attention to recent developments.
The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy,
Former US attorney: Flynn case was
'manipulated' at highest levels of
Obama admin to go after Trump replies
'manipulated' at highest levels of
Obama admin to go after Trump replies
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's rights were violated and he should consider a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and former Obama administration officials, former U.S. attorney Brett Tolman said Friday on "Fox & Friends.""That's why there is an action called a Bivens action. That is to go after a federal investigator that violates someone's constitutional rights. It's specific for that occasion and I hope is he looking at it strongly," said Tolman, an attorney who served as a federal prosecutor in Utah from 2006 to 2009.
Another day, another example of Joe Biden's mental decline.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee spoke on health care at an event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Thursday. An entire event dedicated to health care and the subject of dementia never came up.
Biden, who confuses his wife for his sister, hopes to position himself as the go-to expert on the coronavirus. To demonstrate his profound knowledge on the subject, Biden familiarized himself with the latest statistics on the disease.
"You have, unnecessarily, now we have over 120 million dead from COVID," Biden declared.
It’s over. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is finally out of legal purgatory. As Katie wrote, the DC Appeals Court finally ruled that the case against him should be dismissed. They torched the main argument doled out by retired Judge John Gleeson, who argued against the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the case. That’s what’s funny about this whole affair and exposes the explicit hackery on the bench here. There was no case. The DOJ motion outlined clear evidence of misconduct on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The prosecutor resigned. The defense sure as hell wasn’t going to deny the motion.
Some polls now have Joe Biden running ahead of Donald Trump by 10 points and sweeping the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. This vindicates the strategy Biden's advisers have adopted:
Confine Joe to his basement, no press conferences. Trot him out to recite carefully scripted messages for the cameras. Then lead him back to his stall.
This enables Biden to avoid the blazing questions that are dividing not only Democrats and Republicans but liberals and leftists. And most of these issues touch on the explosive subject of race.
Consider. California's legislature just voted to put to a statewide ballot in November a return to the racial preferences
When the RNC saw that Democrats were trying to abolish a state law in Florida to allow ballots to be counted after Election Day and to prohibit the state’s ban on ballot harvesting, they had to intervene.
As it turns out, it was a President Bill Clinton-appointed judge who gave the Republicans the victory. In his ruling in Nielsen v. DeSantis, Judge Robert Hinkle noted that "the plaintiffs have not shown likely success on the merits" of their case. He explained why it's imperative for the state law to remain intact.
"This eliminates the problem of missing, unclear, or even altered postmarks, eliminates delay that can have adverse consequences,
At a megachurch in Phoenix this week, Donald Trump regaled a crowd of mostly maskless students with a story about the moment he said he knew he would win a second term.
The president explained that he was in the White House recently and passed by a TV screen and saw the words “defund and abolish.”
“What are they going to defund and abolish?” Trump said he asked.
“The police,” he was told.
“Oh, great, I just won the election!”
The data suggest otherwise. In fact, since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer on May 25 and the rise of protests against police brutality
This is as close as you may get to seeing Mitch McConnell give his race-baiting colleagues a taste of their own rhetorical medicine. Following yesterday's disgraceful, hypocritical display on the Senate floor, South Carolina's Tim Scott gave a powerful speech that you should go back and watch. Today, the GOP leader delivered compact, excellent remarks on what happened. Before I get to his choice words for his Democratic counterpart, here are a few more worthwhile excerpts from McConnell's comments:
Recently, the country was informed by hysterical journalists that a rational policy essay from Senator Cotton was too inflammatory to publish.
A "Godzilla dust cloud" from the Sahara Desert that's heading toward the United States this week is the largest and most concentrated dust cloud of its kind in the past 50 years, according to news sources.
As of June 22, the dust cloud — which some experts have dubbed the "Godzilla dust cloud" — had reached the Caribbean, spiking air quality to "hazardous" levels, according to the AP. People along the Gulf Coast may be next to experience the dusty visitor.
Trade winds regularly carry dust clouds from the Sahara on a 5,000-mile (8,000 kilometers) journey across the Atlantic Ocean, but this particular formation
Currently the Centers for Disease Control says there have been 121,809 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Most people, seeing that figure or reading newspaper headlines about Wuhan virus deaths, assume that means that in 121,809 cases, COVID-19 has been the cause of death. But that isn’t true at all.
This Issues & Insights editorial does a good job of bringing together some of the relevant data. But let’s start with something they didn’t mention: this acknowledgement by the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health:
I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying of COVID.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats approved a far-reaching police overhaul Thursday, a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gathered with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the Capitol steps, challenging opponents not to allow the deaths to have been in vain or the outpouring of public support for changes to go unmatched. But the collapse of a Senate Republican bill leaves final legislation in doubt.
We are seeing jurisdictions everywhere imposing mask bans at a rate that approaches the number of bars being threatened with liquor license revocation for failing to enforce social distancing. (snip) Even accepting the uncertain premise that masks are useful, "incorrect use and disposal may actually increase the risk of pathogen transmission, rather than reduce it, especially when masks are used by non-professionals such as the lay public." Given that most "masks" are simply kept handy for use when required, set aside, and then re-used, most mask-wearing by the public is likely to increase virus exposure, not reduce it.
The Left Craps Out
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There are plenty of leftists swaggering these days. Cities have blazed, municipal and state governments have been humiliated, police forces are cowering, mighty corporations are trampling each other to apologize for things they had absolutely nothing to do with.At first glance, this appears to be the left’s moment in the sun, something they’ve looked forward to for many years, if not generations. Throughout the 20th century, the left’s problem with the United States was the lack of a proletariat to lead against the oppressors. The American working class was the farthest thing in the world from an “oppressed” –
In the latest twist on cancel culture, major corporate advertisers are pulling ads from Facebook as part of a #StopHateForProfit campaign launched last week by the Anti-Defamation League. But this campaign isn’t about stopping hate.
On Wednesday, Goodby Silverstein & Partners – which represents companies such as BMW, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo and HP – said it’s joining what is supposed to be a month-long Facebook boycott in July.
“We are taking this action to protest the platform’s irresponsible propagation of hate speech, racism, and misleading voter information,” the ad agency tweeted.
Goodby joins the likes of The North Face, Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s,
With the nation dealing with the coronavirus and widespread looting and violence by left-wing anarchists and criminal thugs, it may seem a minor issue whether California can impose upon the entire nation its animal confinement regulations on veal and pork producers.
But the question, addressed in recent oral arguments before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in North American Meat Institute v. Becerra, raises meaty constitutional and federalism concerns.
Here’s the background. In late 2018, California voters passed Proposition 12, banning the in-state sale of any pork or veal (regardless of origin) from an animal that had been “confined in a cruel manner," defined
Mailing It In
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Voting by mail represents progress, we’ve been told; no one should have to leave his home to exercise the franchise. Thus goes the reasoning behind a new law that requires every registered Californian to receive a ballot for the fall election through the U.S. Postal Service. But will convenience voting yield better outcomes? More likely it will make them worse.
Assembly Bill 860, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on June 18, is premised on ensuring safety in the era of the coronavirus. Yet Wisconsinites voted in person in April, and the predicted spike in coronavirus cases from that public assembly never materialized.
Long Live the Designated Hitter
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Major League Baseball is moving toward a 60-game 2020 season. For the first time in history, the designated-hitter rule will be implemented in both the American and the National Leagues.
This is fantastic news for anyone who loves baseball and America, and not simply because the nation will be treated to more home runs but because we will no longer witness professional athletes clumsily swiping at balls or sticking out their bats and praying to make contact.
It’s not just about offense. Yes, historically the American League scores more runs per game than the National League — in fact, it has every season since 1973, when the DH was first implemented.
In the 1987 classic “The Untouchables,” federal crime fighters take on legendary mafioso Al Capone and the Chicago mob during the Prohibition era. At the time, Capone controlled every power base in the city—from local newspapers to sitting judges. The film spawned a famous line—“he pulls a knife, you pull a gun”—from the scene where Sean Connery’s character explained how to overcome Capone and his thugs.
The term “The Untouchables” referred not to the Chicago mafia but to Eliot Ness’ incorruptible gang of cops. In the Obama era, however, that term is flipped on its head. It applies to the former president himself and his own sort of mob—a broad syndicate
In the post just below this one, I cited a poll by Rasmussen for the proposition that unless Joe Biden gets wholeheartedly behind the police — something I doubt he’s capable of doing at this point — President Trump holds a winning hand on a very important issue. To get a sense of how the Trump campaign can leverage that hand, I invite you to watch this video that Tom Cotton prepared, and to consider helping in its dissemination.
If cannibalism as a spectator sport does not strike you as in bad taste, then get your human-flavored popcorn ready. The appetizers devoured this week to appease the Great and Good God Woke suggest a gluttonous main course to come.
No comedian did more to push Saturday Night Live further and faster on its moralizing, politicized track than Tina Fey. Whereas Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, O.J. Simpson, and other pop culture absurdities served as “Weekend Update” punchlines for her predecessors, Fey fixated on politics to an extent that the aim seemed less laughs than scoring progressive points. This week the zeitgeist she helped create caught up with her.
On January 17, the world’s most trusted public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced it was screening travelers from Wuhan, China, because of a new infectious respiratory illness striking that city.
It was the CDC’s first public briefing on the outbreak, coming as China reported 45 cases of the illness and two deaths linked to a seafood and meat market in Wuhan. Chinese health officials had not yet confirmed that the new illness was transmitted from person to person. But there was reason to believe that it might be: four days earlier, officials in Thailand confirmed their first case,
Osundairo brothers resume cooperation in Smollett prosecution one day
after refusing to help replies
after refusing to help replies
Less than a day after saying they would no longer cooperate with Cook County prosecutors, two central figures in the Jussie Smollett saga are back on board, their attorney said Thursday.
Gloria Schmidt Rodriguez, the lawyer for Abel and Ola Osundairo, said in a statement Thursday that the brothers would resume cooperating because of an “intervention” by special prosecutor Dan Webb. A representative for Webb’s law firm, Winston & Strawn, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sigmund Freud dies and goes to Heaven, where he’s met at the Pearly Gates by Saint Peter.
“Dr. Freud, thank goodness you’ve come! We have a crisis and need your professional help!”
“How so?” asks Freud.
“It’s God. He’s having delusions of grandeur.”
“What are His symptoms?” asks Freud.
“He thinks He’s a federal judge!”
— Old trial lawyer joke
For five decades as a courtroom lawyer, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time to humbling myself and stroking the egos of federal and state judges while catering to their every whim and belief, no matter how mistaken, unfounded, or unjustified. It’s part of the job. The more successful you are at sucking up
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined with other Democrat leaders Thursday in pushing for D.C. statehood ahead of a Friday vote in the House, saying making the city the country's 51st state would right a “grave injustice.”
“Tomorrow we will right this grave injustice which is an affront to our democracy,” Pelosi said at a news conference.
The Speaker noted that D.C. residents pay taxes, serve in the military and contribute to the “economic vitality” of the U.S., but do not have representation. “How could it be? Whose idea was that?” Pelosi continued.
New York Democrat refuses to
concede House primary election,
alleges ‘black voter suppression’ replies
concede House primary election,
alleges ‘black voter suppression’ replies
A New York state lawmaker who sought to replace a retiring member of Congress refused to concede defeat Thursday following Tuesday’s Democratic primary, claiming the election was plagued by “intentional black voter suppression.”
State Assemblyman Michael Blake, an African-American candidate, finished in second place in the 15th Congressional District contest’s in-person ballot count, the New York Daily News reported.
The top finisher was New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres, who is also African-American.
The Trump administration on Thursday night argued in a legal brief filed to the Supreme Court that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be invalidated.
The legal filing, while expected, makes official the Trump administration's position in the Supreme Court against the health law months ahead of the election, at a time when Democrats are hammering President Trump over his position on health care.
Overturning the ACA would take away health coverage for about 20 million people, and the stakes are even higher given the effects of the current pandemic.
On the fifth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, the young, talented physician and great son of liberty, Dr. Joseph Warren, stood before thousands of Bostonians gathered in the Old South Meeting House. As he looked out over those gathered, Warren said, Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rests the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.We stand today in a similar moment
The city’s top cop said the criminal-justice system was “imploding,” as he highlighted a rise in shootings and killings on the city’s streets and slammed pols for refusing to support the Finest at an invite-only press conference at NYPD headquarters this week. “You have to step back and look at this. You have a criminal-justice system that is imploding,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea bemoaned during a small meeting with reporters on Wednesday at One Police Plaza in Manhattan. “Imploding. That’s the kindest way to put it.” Shea went on to point out that many criminal cases that were “ongoing,” “stagnant” or “deferred.”
President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday afternoon at Fox News host Ed Henry for not challenging a left-wing FNC contributor who’d smeared him with lies — just as she’d smeared all Trump supporters with lies just last summer. Look: (Tweet) Henry had been hosting a discussion on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom” when he asked left-wing contributor Jessica Tarlov how she suspects the Democrats’ recent bout of lousy behavior will play out with the American people.“Jessica, you got the Democrats, who talked about police reform, Tim Scott and the Republicans come with a serious effort, you might not like every detail,
Police on Thursday built a fence around the Emancipation Memorial, after an activist announced during a Tuesday rally that he intends to tear it down.
The activist, Harvard University junior Glenn Foster, told a crowd of about 200 people that the memorial, which depicts President Abraham Lincoln ending slavery, embodies the “disempowerment of black people that is forced upon us by white people.” And after decrying systemic racism in the United States, he announced that he, along with his newly formed group, The Freedom Neighborhood, would pull it down with ropes on Thursday.
Foster’s proclamation went viral, igniting a heated debate over the memorial,
House Democrats are poised to approve Washington, D.C., becoming the nation's 51st state in a historic vote scheduled for Friday. Washington the 'District of Columbia' would be no longer, the bill's language says, as the new state would be referred to as 'Washington, Douglass Commonwealth' - swapping out Italian explorer Christopher Columbus for Maryland-born abolitionist Frederick Douglass. 'And what an appropriate name: George Washington and Frederick Douglass, joined together in support of citizenship, what an appropriate name it seems to me for the capital of America,'
President Donald Trump compared some U.S. cities to Afghanistan as he blasted protesters attempting to pull down statues as 'troublemakers' and 'anarchists'. Speaking in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, the president claimed that living in cites like Chicago, Detroit, Oakland and Baltimore was 'like living in hell' as he called for stop and frisk tactics to be used to cut down crime. 'It’s not a racist statement,' Trump said. 'Black people come up to me and say "thank you". They want help.' Trump placed the blame with 'Democrat-run' cities where protests against racial injustice are ongoing, saying they 'don't love our country'
The most recent jobs report found that nine of the 10 states with unemployment rates above 14% are in liberal blue states. Ranked from highest to lowest, they are Nevada (25.3%), Hawaii (22.6%), Michigan (21.2%), California (16.3%), Rhode Island (16.3%), Massachusetts (16.3%), Delaware (15.8%), Illinois (15.2%), New Jersey (15.2%), and Washington state (15.1%). I call this the “blue state jobs depression.” The states with the lowest unemployment rates are all conservative red states: Nebraska (5.2%), Utah (8.5 %), Wyoming 8.8%, Arizona (8.9%), and Idaho (8.9%).
It is hardly shocking news. Liberals are anti-business, and their policies are especially hostile to small businesses. As my old boss, Dick Armey of Texas,
Supreme Court rules 7-2 illegal immigrants
who fail asylum screenings can be deported
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who fail asylum screenings can be deported
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In a win for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has ruled immigrants seeking asylum cannot appeal decisions made earlier in the process in federal court.
A 7-2 vote by the court Thursday decided those who fail their initial asylum screenings will not be able to call for a review of the decision before they are deported.The court also ruled that habeas corpus, a legal procedure requiring the government to explain why someone is being held, will not be applied to asylum seekers.The case was brought forward by a Sri Lankan man who illegally crossed the San Diego border in 2017. He could not provide credible evidence to agents
The threat of racially and ethnically motivated terrorism from white supremacists is “on the rise and spreading geographically” across the country and world, according to a new State Department report. The report, which is published annually with yearly country-by-country terrorism developments, outlined certain groups that are increasingly becoming the focus of hate crimes. The “white supremacist and nativist movements and individuals increasingly target immigrants; Jewish, Muslim, and other religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or intersex (LGBTI) individuals; governments; and other perceived enemies,” according to the report, published by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
A Denver homeowners’ association has ordered a local police chaplain to remove the “thin blue line” flag from his property, even while allowing neighbors to fly similar flags for other first responders and the military.
The chaplain, who wishes to remain anonymous for sadly obvious reasons, has flown his Thin Blue Line flag since National Police Officers Day in May.
He told Fox News 31’s Deborah Takahara earlier this week, “I believe that’s why I’m being targeted — because I’m associated with them. I believe it’s just because it’s everything going on in the world right now, in this country.”
The old 2020 election was supposed to be about many familiar issues. It is not anymore.
Up until now, the candidates themselves would supposedly be the story in November. The left had cited Trump’s tweets and erratic firings as windows into his dark soul.
The right had replied that an addled and befuddled Joe Biden was not really a candidate at all.
Instead, he was a mere facsimile who would have to be carried to Election Day on the shoulders of the Democratic Party, only shortly to fade away.
Then a radical vice president soon could implement a hard-left agenda through succession that she could not through election.
A Russian ransomware group whose leaders were indicted by the Justice Department in December is retaliating against the U.S. government, many of America’s largest companies and a major news organization, identifying employees working from home during the pandemic and attempting to get inside their networks with malware intended to cripple their operations. Sophisticated new attacks by the hacking group — which the Treasury Department claims has at times worked for Russian intelligence — were identified in recent days by Symantec Corp., a division of Broadcom, one of the many firms that monitors corporate and government networks. In an urgent warning issued Thursday night, the company reported that Russian hackers had
Stonehenge is arguably the most well-known megalith in the United Kingdom. But the structures surrounding this roughly 5,000-year-old monument boast equally fascinating histories. Take, for instance, Durrington Walls, a large Neolithic hedge located just under two miles northeast of its more famous neighbor. Though prehistoric humans likely used Stonehenge as a sacred place for ceremonies and burials, Durrington Walls was where they actually lived and feasted together. Now, new research published in the journal Internet Archaeology reveals another layer of this historic landscape. Deep pits dot the area surrounding Durrington Walls, creating a mile-wide circle centered on the stone monument.
Is Hidin’ Joe Biden the 1994 Crime Bill guy, or the #BLM and antifa guy?
The former veep and alleged Democratic presidential nominee might be up in the polls, but his campaign is being pulled in two impossible directions with a rudderless candidate stuck in the middle with little to do.
It isn’t easy to feel sympathy for someone like Biden, who has somehow grown rich without ever producing a good or service in the private sector.
The man who used his public “service” to enrich his talentless and ethically challenged son.
The man who can’t seem to keep his hands and nose off women who are not his wife,