Posts on Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Proving the cable channel is no longer a news network, on Tuesday’s New Day, CNN co-hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota brought on political correspondent Seung Min Kim to launch juvenile insults at President Trump. Berman was particularly obnoxious, as he completely shunned his guise of being a journalist to compare Republicans praising Trump for wearing a mask to parents “praising a kid for learning how to potty train.”Berman began the absurd discussion by comparing Republicans lauding Trump to training a dog or feeding an infant: "I have to say, one of the things that's most interesting is the way that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are treating the President,
The left continued to spread the narrative that President Donald Trump may refuse to leave the White House if he loses the election in November. And left-wing political commentator and Young Turks host Cenk Uygur added to the conspiracy theories on Tuesday as he, too, offered a way to rid the country of the president in case the United States military “does not remove him from office” after a supposed loss in November. (Photo) The host of the progressive online talk show and a failed congressional candidate, Uygur tweeted his vow to personally “go to Washington” to remove Trump, furthering the left’s fantasy that the president will lose his reelection
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday touted securing the support of half of the Senate Democrats for his amendment to defund the Pentagon by 10 percent and invest in “distressed communities” instead.Sanders’ amendment to cut 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget to invest in “human needs” gained support from 23 members of the Senate Democrat Caucus — half of the 45 Democrats in the Senate.The support was not enough to get the amendment passed and part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, but was a show of support from Democrats for defunding the military.Sanders said in a statement after the vote: Today, almost half of the members of the
The judge overseeing the criminal cases against four ex-police officers charged in the May 25 killing of George Floyd vacated his previous gag order Tuesday that restricted comments by lawyers and others associated with the cases. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill acted in response to objections to the gag order by the defendants and a coalition of news media organizations, including the Star Tribune, that are also seeking the release of body camera footage recorded during Floyd’s deadly encounter with police. Cahill did not rule Tuesday on motions seeking the release of the videos, which are currently viewable by the public only by appointment.
The Michigan House approved Wednesday a bill that would direct elderly people with COVID-19 away from nursing homes and into designated care facilities, a challenge to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's nursing home order. If the Senate concurs on the bill, the legislation would be sent to Whitmer, where she is expected to veto it. The bill, which was approved by the House 74-34, bans nursing homes from admitting or retaining an individual starting Sept. 1 who tests positive for COVID-19 unless the person had recovered or unless a nursing home could provide care in a separate building. Seventeen Democrats joined Republicans in approving the bill.
A transgender man is suing the University of Maryland Medical System in federal court, claiming his rights were violated when his gender-affirming surgery was canceled by one of the hospital system's subsidiaries. Jesse Hammons was scheduled to have a hysterectomy in January at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. The procedure, routinely performed on cisgender women at the same hospital, was deemed medically necessary for Hammons, who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. However, about a week before the scheduled surgery date, the center canceled the procedure because it “conflicted with the hospital’s Catholic religious beliefs
The gun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable when it arrived at the St. Louis police crime lab, but a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's staff ordered crime lab experts to disassemble and reassemble it and wrote that it was “readily capable of lethal use” in charging documents filed Monday, 5 On Your Side has learned. In Missouri, police and prosecutors must prove that a weapon is “readily” capable of lethal use when it is used in the type of crime with which the McCloskeys have been charged.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump may be losing, but that doesn’t mean Joe Biden is winning. At least that’s the concern of a pro-Democrat super PAC embracing a new strategy backed by $15 million in online ads to help close the nagging enthusiasm gap between the Republican president and his Democratic challenger. The strategist leading the super PAC known as PACRONYM warns that Biden is leading many polls “by default” and may lose his advantage unless Democrats give key groups of voters better reasons to get excited about their nominee. “We really think that Biden’s enthusiasm gap could be
NFL fans will be required to wear protective face masks while attending games this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several NFL teams, including the Cleveland Browns, had already announced individual mandates for face masks. The league’s 32 franchises are preparing to play games with reduced attendance levels this fall. “For those wondering, yes, it is league-wide: fans at NFL games this season will be required to wear face coverings,” a league spokesperson, Brian McCarthy, tweeted Wednesday. (Tweet) The NFL said it would determine which teams would be able to host fans on a case-by-case basis according to guidance from
A Minnesota judge on Tuesday lifted a gag order that restricted comments from attorneys and others associated with the criminal case concerning the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill vacated the order after the move was met with pushback from a coalition of news organizations and attorneys representing the former officers, The Associated Press reported. In making the decision, Cahill said that he agreed with the argument from defense attorneys that a gag order would unfairly prevent their clients from addressing negative press reports.
"The gag order didn't work," (Snip) "If anything it may have exacerbated the issue."
Space Force’s new motto is a Latin phrase meaning “always above.”The newest United States military branch unveiled its official motto “Semper Supra” and logo, a silver delta symbol featuring the Polaris star, on Wednesday. Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond tweeted out a photo of the logo along with information explaining the choice. “We are building a new Service to secure the space domain... the ultimate high ground. Our strategic imperative is to ensure that our space capabilities & the advantages they provide the nation & our Joint and Coalition partners are always there. #SemperSupra!” Raymond said. (Tweet)
Nike said Wednesday it’s cutting jobs and shuffling its executive ranks as the sports apparel giant shifts more of its focus to digital sales versus brick-and-mortar retail outlets, which have taken a beating amid the coronavirus pandemic. Nike didn’t specify how many of its 76,700 employees worldwide will get the ax, but disclosed on its website that the cuts will result in a pretax charge of $200 million to $250 million. A spokeswoman for the maker of Air Jordan and LeBron 17 Graffiti shoes portrayed the cuts as a reallocation of resources rather than a reduction in costs, CNBC reported Wednesday.
The controversial “Rub & Tug” movie, about transgender gangster Dante “Tex” Gill, which drew headlines when Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead, is now being developed as a television series with trans people in front of and behind the camera. Our Lady J, an Emmy-nominated writer on “Pose,” will helm the project, production company New Regency announced Tuesday, along with a commitment to casting a trans actor to play Gill, a 1970s crime boss who led an empire of illegal massage parlors.(Snip) The project, first presented as a movie, faced backlash from LGBTQ activists and the general public after Johansson was announced
AUSTIN, Texas — The University Interscholastic League has pushed the first games of the Texas high school football season for its biggest districts to the end of September due to the coronavirus. The modifications to the 2020-2021 UIL calendar and updated COVID-19 risk mitigation guidelines are set to take effect August 1st.
UIL's updated plan provides a delay for schools in highly-populated metro areas, primarily conferences 5A-6A, given the challenges with COVID-19 those communities are facing. (snip) Meanwhile, smaller school districts that are 1A-4A have an opportunity to start seasons on schedule.
My patriotic mood began while rewatching Whitney Houston's spectacular performance of our National Anthem at Super Bowl XXV in 1991. Whitney's rendition was rereleased as a single after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She donated all proceeds to charity.(Snip)I pray that Christians will stop kneeling to wicked cultural demands and begin standing up again for Godly principles.(Snip) Folks, in these final months leading up to the November election, the Democrat/communist party will launch every wicked scheme in their depraved playbook to attack the American people to stop them from reelecting one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history, Donald J. Trump.
Charlie Daniels’ widow shares touching letter
Melania and President Trump sent her
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Melania and President Trump sent her
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The widow of the late country music legend Charlie Daniels is grateful for an unexpected surprise from President Donald Trump. Hazel Daniels and the couple’s son, Charlie Daniels Jr., penned a thank you note to the president and tagged him on Instagram and Twitter posts on Monday, sharing an image of the letter sent by Trump to offer condolences on the passing of the 83-year-old star who died of a hemorrhagic stroke earlier this month. (Photo) “Mr. President, we are honored that you would think of us in our time of grieving. Thank you so much, Donald J. Trump,” the caption read on the post shared on the official page
Don't Rehear This
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We have followed the extraordinary case against General Flynn as events have warranted. By all rights it should be a sidebar to the biggest scandal in American political history by far, yet it opens a window on incredible wrongdoing at the highest reaches of the Obama administration in the FBI, the CIA, and the Department of Justice, including Team Mueller. It is a disgrace that Attorney General Barr has sought to expose and to mitigate.
The mandamus proceedings to which Judge Sullivan is subject are a sidebar to the sidebar, or a sideshow in the sidebar. Judge Sullivan resists. He seeks to continue the prosecution of General Flynn.
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, has a plan on how to douse the protest violence in Portland, Seattle and elsewhere: Hold local officials responsible for failing to stop it. Mr. Cruz introduced Wednesday legislation that would “hold state and local officials liable when they abdicate their legal duty to protect the public in cases where death, serious bodily harm or significant property damage have occurred.” The bill, called the Restitution for Economic losses Caused by Leaders Who Allow Insurrection and Mayhem Act, or RECLAIM, would allow property owners to seek triple damages for protest destruction.(Snip) “As public officials, our first responsibility is to protect
The new lawsuit filed by two women against Fox News and several of its personalities is riddled with inaccuracies. This raises questions about the veracity of its claims. Jennifer Eckhart and Cathy Areu, a former Fox Business producer and frequent network guest, respectively, claim that they suffered sexual misconduct, harassment, and even rape at the hands of Ed Henry, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Howard Kurtz.
The lawsuit immediately made waves in the mainstream media, where it was picked up by the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, CBS News, and other major outlets.
Joe Biden's advantage over Trump
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with Black voters is currently
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The death of George Floyd and subsequent protests reshaped the presidential race. It brought race relations, racism and police brutality to the forefront.
In that time, former Vice President Joe Biden's advantage over President Donald Trump expanded from about six points to closer to 10 points.
Interestingly, however, Trump continues to do something perhaps unexpectedly among Black voters: Hold his own against Biden relative to many people's expectations.
There have been over 10 national live interview polls since the protests began for which I could assess Black voter sentiment in the presidential race. Altogether, we're looking at well more than 1,000 interviews.
In June, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) was reportedly out of the running to be Joe Biden’s running mate, but Biden told a Michigan TV station Tuesday that she’s back under consideration. (Video) “Are you still considering Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as a potential vice presidential candidate?” WOOD TV reporter Rick Albin asked.“Yes,” Biden replied.That is an apparent reversal from June, when WWJ reported: Prominent Democrats with knowledge of the process say Biden’s vetting committee has narrowed the choices to as few as six serious contenders after initial interviews. One notable exclusion from that short list — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
To Mask or Not to Mask
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I have for most of my adult life been a practicing hypochondriac. So, it will come as no surprise to you to hear that I am a zealous reader of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). I find something of interest in practically every issue. Recently I found myself engrossed in the thoughts of Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who is also, if I am not mistaken, a noted bird-watcher. I, of course, know very little about the birds. Yet, thanks to Dr. Redfield and the JAMA, I am now very much up-to-date in my knowledge
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick ran a depraved sex ring of underage boys at a beach house on the Jersey Shore, a disturbing new lawsuit claims. The suit, filed by a man using the pseudonym Doe 14, claims that in 1982 and 1983, when he was as young as 14 years old, he and other victims were taken on weekend overnight trips to a Sea Girt beach house. “McCarrick assigned sleeping arrangements, choosing his victims from the boys, seminarians and clerics present at the beach house,” according to the suit filed in state court under New Jersey’s Child Victims Act. “On these occasions, minor boys
Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden teamed up for a socially distanced conversation to discuss the election and trash President Donald Trump. “Can you imagine standing up when you were president and saying, ‘It’s not my responsibility,’ ‘I take no responsibility,’ I mean literally,” Biden says in a preview of the conversation with Obama. The video shows Biden and Obama arriving at a building wearing masks and maintaining a distance before sitting far apart on two chairs for their conversation. (Video)
Who would have thought it: That when a neighboring country without stable medical care gets hit by the virus, anyone with the ability to come here would seek care in our hospitals when they get sick?(Snip)The numbers are truly extraordinary. On Sunday, 42% of all deaths reported in Texas were in border counties, even though those counties account for just 9% of the state’s population and are generally much less dense than the counties closer to the major population centers. The positivity rate of testing is almost twice as high in Hidalgo County (border) as in Harris County (Houston).
What is wrong with old Joe? 77-year-old Joe Biden on Wednesday struggled to remember the word “aneurysm” during a livestream event with SEIU member and nursing home worker, Shanrika.Only 19 people were watching his livestream 26 minutes into the event! (Tweet) Biden is not playing with a full deck. Earlier this week Biden became totally incoherent during a softball interview with MSNBC and told host Joy Reid his campaign has “voter registration physicians” in the states…to allow for voting in place.This is why Biden refuses to take questions from reporters and the sycophantic media gives him a pass. WATCH:
New York Police Department officers clad in riot gear emptied out an “occupy” protest that sprung up around NYC City Hall weeks ago in a dramatic pre-dawn raid, according to local media.The protest, which began on June 28 with just 100 protesters, had spilled over into the street as demonstrators demanded a massive cut to the NYPD budget. Although New York City mayor Bill de Blasio happily complied with demands to “defund the police,” slashing the NYPD’s operating funds by nearly a billion dollars and canceling more than 1,000 planned hires, protesters remained unsatisfied given that De Blasio refused to officially sign the change into law.
When faced with the choice of giving a Donald Trump supporter the exact same right to free expression as the left-wing terrorist group Black Lives Matter, Redwood City, California, chose to outlaw everyone’s speech.(Snip)
Redwood City was so eager to allow one of its residents to paint a Black Lives Matter mural on city property, the city — and therefore the taxpayers — provided him with some of the materials.
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real estate attorney Maria Rutenburg asked the city for the same free speech rights, asked the city for permission to paint a “MAGA 2020” mural, all of a sudden the city decided murals are “a traffic hazard
Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush on Wednesday accused President Trump of wanting to “instigate a race war” so he could say he was the “grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan.”
"That's Trump's game plan. Trump wants to instigate a race war,” the Illinois Democrat claimed during an appearance on “The Joe Madison Show” on SiriusXM Wednesday morning. “So he can rise up and say, 'I'm the real grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan and I'm the President. Reelect me.' That's what he's trying to do.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping delivered comments on Tuesday again offering no leadership on the historic floods threatening at least 27 provinces in the country, instead pressuring Chinese businesses to rapidly make up for losses caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Over a month of consistent heavy rain has resulted in hundreds of rivers in the Chinese heartland flooding, particularly the Yangtze – the longest river in Asia spanning nearly 4,000 miles. The flooding has raised international concern over the security of the Three Gorges Dam, China’s premier infrastructure achievement, now believed to have been “distorted” by water pressure. Chinese officials have blown up at least one other minor dam to protect
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich is calling for the resignation of Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales.
“Sheriff Gonzales wasn’t representing Bernalillo County when he opposed body cameras. He wasn’t representing Bernalillo County when he opposed efforts for common sense gun violence reforms. And he isn’t with us now," Heinrich said.
The senator claims Sheriff Gonzales is inviting the Trump administration to send federal forces to help patrol the city.
Jason Whitlock says NBA 'doesn't
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really care about' US audience: 'Real
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Outkick.com contributor Jason Whitlock on Wednesday explained why the National Basketball Association does not care about its United States audience as the league pursues massive financial interests in China.
“They’ve put the goals and the agenda of China ahead of the American agenda and that’s why it is so easy for them to sit on their thrones and smear America while overlooking the fact that there is Asian slave labor, and the Communist China Party are using a Lebron James, a Colin Kaepernick, a Nike to smear America,” Whitlock told “Ingraham Angle.”
Hours after the United States ordered the closure of the Consulate General of China in Houston on Tuesday, witnesses spotted workers burning papers in the courtyard.
Firefighters said they could smell smoke and saw something burning in barrels, the Houston Chronicle reported. However, firefighters were not granted access to the building."All I know, it's illegal to have open burning in the city of Houston like that," Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said. "But it's a sovereign country, and we can't get access into those consulates so we're limited in what we can do."
Photo Appears to Show Black Lives Matter
Supporters Holding Down and Kneeling on
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Supporters Holding Down and Kneeling on
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A photograph of a man kneeling on the neck of a white baby while another person holds the diapered child’s arms is stirring up a massive amount of rage on social media.
The shocking and disturbing photograph, which was captioned by the abusers as “Blm now mf” is beginning to make the rounds after being uncovered by Vincent James of Red Elephants.
The man in the photo’s name is Isaiah Jackson and he resides in Ohio. A man with that name was arrested on July 20 in Ohio for a probation violation.
The paternal grandmother of the child wrote on Facebook that the photo was taken two days ago
An illegal immigrant whom the Obama administration declined to deport after a DUI arrest in 2016 is now accused of another DUI—and this time, authorities say, three people were killed. Ivan Robles Navejas, 28, is accused of crossing the center stripe on the road on a highway near San Antonio on Saturday and smashing into riders from the Thin Blue Line motorcycle club. Three riders were killed and four others sent to the hospital in critical condition.(Snip) Mr. Navejas had other encounters with the law before and after the 2016 case. In 2013 he was charged with resisting arrest,
Street graffiti for me, but not for thee. That’s what lawmakers in Redwood City, California basically told a Trump supporter who wanted to paint “MAGA 2020” on the same street where left-wing activists had painted a Black Lives Matter mural.Last week, Redwood City (which is located on the San Francisco peninsula) washed away the “Black Lives Matter” mural after a local attorney — a Trump supporter — argued that since the street was now a public forum, she should be allowed to paint “MAGA 2020” on it.“I saw the ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign appearing on Broadway Street on the asphalt and I figured that’s gonna be a new public space—
The first thing you need to understand about the building that, until very recently, housed the Russian Consulate in San Francisco — a city where topography is destiny, where wealth and power concentrate, quite literally, at the top — is its sense of elevation. Brick-fronted, sentinel-like, and six stories high, it sits on a hill in Pacific Heights, within one of the city’s toniest zip codes.
SEATTLE — King County Executive Dow Constantine announced Tuesday afternoon he plans to convert the remaining detention units at the county’s juvenile jail to “other uses” by 2025. He made the announcement on Twitter, citing a desire to move public funding away from “systems that are rooted in oppression,” The Seattle Times reported. (Snip) He added that his announcement comes after “the vicious, state-sponsored murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.” King County has declared a goal of “Zero Youth Detention” for years, even as a new jail facility was built. The recently-opened, 156-bed Patricia H. Clark Children and Family
From Asheville to Trashville
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For all the blathering we’ve heard over the past few months about how “systemic racism” is the nation’s biggest mortal threat, it’s become sparklingly clear that the real problem is systemic stupidity.
The country is currently in the throes of fatal conniptions over idea that there’s some solution to “inequality.” Not for a second has anyone paused to ponder that perhaps the true cause of inequality is the fact that people aren’t equal—never have been, never will be.
(Snip) Asheville, NC would be a little slice of paradise if it weren’t infested with Marxist bluehairs transplanted from the Northeast who see it as their solemn moral obligation to carpetbag the local
Brown Responds to Questions Over
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Police Response After Activists Say
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Amid reports that Chicago activists may have warned police that a shooting was possible at a funeral where 15 people were wounded in the city's Gresham neighborhood Tuesday, Supt. David Brown said the department did have a presence in the area prior to the shootout. According to Brown, two squad cars were stationed at the funeral home and an additional tact team was deployed to the area - standard protocol, he said, for funerals involving victims with potential gang ties."Every gang funeral with any evidence of any kind of gang affiliation is treated similar," he said, adding that such a presence would have been ordered "regardless of warnings given."
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted his support Wednesday for the shuttering of a Chinese consulate in Houston, claiming that spying activity was carried out through the facility.
The U.S. directed the closure of the consulate on Tuesday. The Chinese government said Wednesday morning that they had been instructed to do so without warning, but Rubio claims the move was "long overdue."
Two men and a woman on Wednesday have been arrested in connection with the brutal beatings and death of three Florida friends during a nighttime catfishing trip. "We have locked up the three people responsible for the murders of these guys," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Tony "TJ" Williams, 26, a hardened criminal with 230 felony criminal charges against him in his arrest history, was the alleged ringleader behind the "massacre." His girlfriend, Mary Whitmore, 27, and his brother Robert Williams, 21, have also been arrested. Judd called the elder Williams "pure evil in the flesh" and said
San Francisco, Calif. — Criminal activity has become so commonplace in the city on the Bay that a man can walk down the street and randomly break a series of car windows and hardly raise the collective eyebrows of its residents. “Just another beautiful day in San Francisco,” mused the Twitter account Broken Windows, which collects and shares an endless stream of property vandalism that has become the new norm in SF. Jaded San Franciscans pipe in after watching the video of the pipe swinger, who did his work in western downtown, south of Market Street…
The Insidious Impact of Twitter
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Twitter claims to be a modern-day public square wherein those without a forum can discuss, debate and share their opinions and views. However, it has evolved into a primary source of fabricated stories and copy farming for the media, the principal driver of policy for the political parties, particularly the Democrats, and a vehicle to intimidate businesses and major corporations.
On July 14 Bari Weiss, former New York Times opinion writer and editor, penned a scathing letter of resignation addressed to the publisher of the Times wherein she stated: “Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.”
The price tag for the next COVID-19 aid package could quickly swell above $1 trillion as White House officials negotiate with Congress over money to reopen schools, prop up small businesses, boost virus testing and keep cash flowing to Americans while the virus crisis deepens in the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday promised a new round of direct payments to earners below a certain income level, similar to the $1,200 checks sent in the spring.(Snip) Treasury Secretary Mnuchin and acting chief of staff Mark Meadows spent the day on Capitol Hill, meeting separately with McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
The only thing we know for certain about COVID-19 is that more people are dying this year than in previous years.(Snip)What is inexcusable is the ongoing and blatant suppression of valid debate over how to treat COVID-19.(Snip) not only are dissident opinions offered by medical experts ignored by the media or only featured in the context of being “debunked,” but their postings on YouTube and Facebook routinely are taken down. Alternative websites that attract far less viewership are the only recourse.
The most notorious example of this bias and suppression is with respect to the treatment alternative that relies on hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc as an outpatient therapy.
WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of protests across the country over police shootings of unarmed Black people and racial disparities, some mayors and local officials are proposing ways to examine the impact of slavery and help atone for it, including reparations. From Providence to Asheville, N.C., local officials have proposed measures to begin to address years of what they call injustices in their communities. The measures range from resolutions to support studying reparations to proposals funneling more funds into programs for Black communities. “It’s always the right time to do the right thing,” said Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza, noting the
Prof. Margot Cleveland at The Federalist makes some very cogent and sobering points in her article today about how the process now playing out before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals might lend itself to even more mischief that will only serve to further draw out the proceedings without reaching a final determination for weeks if not months.
Prof. Cleveland served for nearly 25 years as a staff attorney for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and knows intimately the process and “tick-tock” that goes on behind the scenes when a motion is pending such as the one filed by Judge Sullivan — properly or improperly.
The Petition pending is not
Judge Emmett Sullivan has no business seeking a rehearing by the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals of the panel decision granting Michael Flynn’s petition for mandamus. Both Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, and the U.S. government hammered that point yesterday in their answers to Sullivan’s petition for rehearing en banc. (Snip) For the case to be heard en banc, though, a majority of the 11 active judges must vote to rehear the case before the full court.
(Snip)if this were a normal case, it would be unlikely that a majority of the judges would want to expend the time to resolve an issue unlikely to occur ever again. But this isn’t
Right-wing artist and activist Scott LoBaido has unfurled a massive banner of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio holding Lady Liberty’s severed head over the Staten Island Expressway. The giant banner is 20′ by 30′, or roughly the size of a large two car garage, and features de Blasio happily holding the bleeding head while rocking a Che Guevara shirt. (Photo) “Go big or go home!” LoBaido wrote on Facebook.The New York Post reports that “while cops asked LoBaido to take the print down about an hour and a half after it went up, the controversial artist said he’s got plans to hang it elsewhere
Kayleigh McEnany Schools Media on
Federal Response in Portland and
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Federal Response in Portland and
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The ignorance and/or spin by the Democrats and the media in regard to what has been going on in Portland has been something else.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl thought he was going to trap Kayleigh McEnany with questions about the federal response in Portland.
But Harvard Law School educated McEnany who is hyper-organized with tabbed briefing books showed him what it’s like to be informed, unlike much of the media. (Tweets)Then Georgetown Law professor Jonathan Turley finished Karl off with a little lesson in the Constitution.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to the coronavirus as the "Trump virus" on Tuesday as cases spike across the country,The California Democrat did so as she criticized President Trump’s response to the pandemic."I think with the president's comments today, he has recognized the mistakes that he has made by now embracing mask-wearing and the recognition this is not a hoax, it is a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction and, in fact, clearly, it is the Trump virus," Pelosi told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer."Well, what do you mean when you say the 'Trump virus'?" Blitzer asked."The Trump virus," Pelosi said.
We’ll look back at the coronavirus pandemic as the era of great transition when traditional linear media entertainment platforms finally conceded defeat to the growing power of direct-to-consumer business. Roku, Inc. today announced findings from its annual cord cutting study, including new insights shared by U.S. consumers about how the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing the shift to streaming. Ironically, Roku has not yet signed streaming agreements with major new entrants such as WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s Peacock, and yet its findings suggest an acceleration in the mass exodus of linear customers. The study found that approximately 32% of U.S. TV households do not have a traditional pay TV subscription
A high school student’s petition posted on the change.org website claims that Trader Joe’s ethnic food labels and its founder are racist, and the store announced it will be rebranding its products.
“The Trader Joe’s branding is racist because it exoticizes other cultures — it presents ‘Joe’ as the default ‘normal’ and the other characters falling outside of it,” Briones Bedell, 17, wrote on her petition, which has gained more than 3,600 signatures.(Snip) Bedell in her petition used information from the Trader Joe’s website to make her racism claim, which includes an explanation on how founder Joe Coulombe got the idea for his store:
The store had a nautical theme
The charges filed by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner against Mark and Patricia McCloskey already seemed like a political witch-hunt because the couple dared to defend themselves and their property by displaying guns to BLM ‘protesters’ who trespassed on private property back in June. The ‘protesters’ went through a gate onto a private street and allegedly onto the property of the McCloskeys. Mark McCloskey said that the ‘protesters’ also threatened him and his family. They also allegedly broke the wrought-iron gate onto the private street at some point during the incident.
Beijing—The United States said Wednesday that it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property" and the private information of Americans. China strongly condemned the move, the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration as it ratchets up pressure on the world's second-largest economy over trade, technology, human rights and security.(Snip)
“The United States will not tolerate (China’s) violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated (its) unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs, and other egregious behavior,” said the statement,
Harold Ross must be spinning in his grave, tearing out leaves from his copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage.
With little fanfare, The New Yorker followed suit with other periodicals and adopted a new capital-letter convention: plumping the lower-case "b" in "blacks" to "Blacks." The style change was implemented in the hebdomadal journal's July 20, 2020 issue. It was not evident in the previous issue, a doublized special dated for July 6 and 13.
Unlike other papers and newsweeklies, The New Yorker didn't announce the change in a cloying justification, slavering for a smidgeon of approval from sensitive Black Lives Matter–supporters. Most publications did
An investigation concluded the NIAID's AIDS research division that reported to Fauci had failed in many cases to provide patient advocates to monitor the foster kids' health as promised, and in some cases, as required by law.
In other words, a trust was broken.
The Black Lives Matter movement and the subsequent riots by Antifa, the Democrat party’s domestic terrorist arm, have shown Americans what leftism is -- an ugly combination of social and government coercion, racism, violence, and anti-Americanism. (snip) BLM protests have revealed the damage that decades of leftist messaging have visited on straight, young, white women. To set the stage, here are some videos of the hysterical, young, white women who keep showing up in the front row of the Black Lives Matter movement, whether screaming at police, arguing with black people, rioting, or groveling
The New War on Merit
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The American dream is that any citizen, regardless of sex, race, creed, or color, can rise on his determination and merit. History is littered with examples of the reformers who worked to realize that dream, pushing the most influential institutions in the country to prize talent and hard work over wealth and connections.The introduction of standardized testing, accessible to all American teens, was part of that push. Harvard University began administering a standardized test to all applicants in 1905. Its effect was profound and immediate: historically a landing spot for the Protestant upper crust, the school began admitting far more public school kids, Catholics, and Jews
One Nation Under Anarcho-Tyranny
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The America you grew up in is not the America we live in now.One nation under God? Ha.Land of the free? Ha.Domestic tranquility? Ha.Equal protection under the law? Ha.The right to bear arms? Ha. Freedom of speech? Association? Peaceable assembly? Ha. Ha. Ha.It's not "socialism" or "communism" under which we suffer. Our dangerously chaotic, selectively oppressive predicament is more accurately described as "anarcho-tyranny." The late conservative columnist Sam Francis first coined the term in 1992 to diagnose a condition of "both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny — the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes."
Yesterday, what Google calls a “technical error” exposed a blacklist of multiple conservative sites, including American Thinker. After the blacklisting became obvious and generated commentary among conservative publications (and crickets among the dominant MSM propaganda organs), it appears to have been reversed.
The blacklist became blatantly obvious when a Google search for “American Thinker” revealed no items from our site, but rather articles elsewhere that mentioned us. (snip) This morning, the ban on material beginning www.americanthinker.com was no longer visible
Almost daily now we’ve been reading about how daily deaths from COVID-19 have reached record highs. It’s a scary prospect. But the truth is the mainstream press is grossly misleading the public by misreporting the death counts.
Here’s a typical report, from USA Today a few days ago: “As the outbreak continues to surge across the southern states, Florida, Texas and South Carolina set records for new daily deaths, reporting 156, 129 and 69, respectively.”
ABC News reported that “Nineteen states set single-day records for the most cases this week … Three states set a record today.”
According to PBS
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich is reportedly gearing up to speak at the Democratic National Convention — what there will be of it — to support Joe Biden over President Trump. It is the natural conclusion of the presidential run he flamed out of in 2016.
That Kasich has retroactively inserted himself into the Republican resistance to Trump is a masterful grift from start to finish. It was Kasich, after all, who made Trump's win possible in the 2016 primary. Despite having no shot at victory (he wasn't alone in this), he stayed in well past his expiration date, further splintering the anti-Trump vote. If anything,
A Tale of Two Arsonists
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Among the dozens of anarchists arrested over the past two months, few have gotten a more vociferous defense from the anti-police left than Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, two "public interest" lawyers accused of firebombing a police car.
Their defenders, who argue that the criminal justice system is stacked against the poor and underprivileged, were the first to invoke Mattis and Rahman's elite credentials when pressing the courts to cut them slack. Mattis and Rahman are high achievers: He is a Princeton and NYU Law grad with a corporate legal job, and she graduated from Fordham Law after spending a summer in "occupied Palestine."
Portland is still engulfed by antifa violence (as the Democrats side with the violent rioters), America’s history and heritage is under direct and unapologetic assault, covid hysteria is still hamstringing the nation’s economic life and prosperity, and on Monday, Joe Biden offered an all-purpose remedy: “One of the things I think is important, I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith.” I’ll bet you’re wishing you had thought of that.
Biden’s prescription for what ails us came during a bout of intensive Islamopandering he engaged in while addressing the “Million Muslim Votes Summit,” a call hosted by Emgage Action,
The tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd have led to riots, civil unrest, and protests against police brutality, systemic racism, white supremacy, and what many see as a disregard for black life in America. Many protesters link the deaths of Abrey, Taylor, and Floyd to past injustices, asserting that racist whites and police pose the same threat, or worse, to black Americans today.
These passionate claims have met broad agreement from leftist elected officials, media outlets, and entertainers. The ubiquity of the claims, combined with their general lack of relevant supporting evidence, highlights a distinct peculiarity within black political culture: black leaders
The Associated Press reports that the Joe Biden campaign has reached out to former Ohio governor John Kasich to speak on his behalf at the Democratic National Convention. Kasich, an anti-abortion, pro-gun Republican, ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. When he didn’t win, he voted for… John McCain, even though McCain wasn’t even on the ballot. So he speaks for a critical constituency of people who understand that Donald Trump is not fit to be president but can’t be bothered to use their vote to help.
I can see why it’s important for Biden and the Democrats to secure Kasich’s endorsement.
Time to Reopen the Schools
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It seems almost incredible that in a number of states, serious consideration is being given to keeping the public schools closed in the Fall. Given that the coronavirus is rarely dangerous to children–less so, in fact, than the average seasonal flu–it is hard to understand the rationale for continued school closures.
The most commonly offered excuse is that the children may infect teachers. Presumably that is possible, but a U.K. epidemiologist said yesterday that “Scientists are yet to find a single confirmed case of a teacher catching coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world.”
Teachers’ unions are the main proponents of continued school closings, apparently because some teachers and administrators
The America-the-Terrible disease has now invaded baseball, the sport that to this point had mostly avoided the current race obsession that threatens to turn the American melting pot into a pressure cooker.
In a Monday evening exhibition game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, Giants manager Gabe Kapler and several of his players and coaches took a knee or otherwise signaled their belief in what a racist country America is during the playing of the National anthem. Various other teams and players have signaled their intention to go along with the insanity when MLB begins play this week and signal in various ways their disapproval of the country
From sea to shining sea, crime is surging and gunfire rings throughout the night. In some cities, anarchists smash windows and set fires, aiming to set up autonomous zones.
In response, President Trump threatens to dispatch federal troops unless local officials stop the chaos. In their response to him, Democratic governors and mayors tell the president to buzz off.
Oregon’s attorney general even sues to stop Homeland Security agents from making arrests in riot-torn Portland,
Terrorism is a form of propaganda, a political weapon that can be used to instill fear, horror and indignation, to destroy and sap out the will of the people. Through fear and terror one can demand obedience and blind submission…. Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose will force capitulation.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein KampfThe first step in dismantling and defeating any criminal or terrorist organization is to identify its participants. In the early 1970s, when the U.S. Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section ramped up operations against what we used to call “La Cosa Nostra” (LCN),
Two women – Jennifer Eckhart, who worked for Fox, and Cathy Areu, who was an occasional guest on Fox shows – filed a lawsuit in Federal court accusing Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Howard Kurtz, Gianno Caldwell, and Ed Henry of a wide range of alleged sexual misconduct. (snip) the accusations against Carlson are ridiculous, and it’s these charges that are the subject of this post.
Superficially, Areu accuses Carlson of ordering his employees to restrain her in a chair, so that he could solicit her for sex. Then, when she rebuffed him, he dumped her as a guest.
Yesterday, a sexual harassment was filed involving two women who have made allegations about several hosts (and one former reporter) at Fox News. One of the allegations involves Tucker Carlson. The person making the complaint is a former frequent guest on his show named Cathy Areu. According to the complaint, Carlson made a kind of proposition in advance of a Christmas Party that took place in December 2018, about 18 months ago. I’m going to quote most of the complaint against Carlson because nearly all of these details turn out to be important.
Redwood City in San Francisco’s Bay Area quietly scrubbed away its Black Lives Matter mural from a city street after a resident asked to paint a similar “MAGA 2020” on the same road, according to a local news report.
Redwood City resident Dan Pease received permission from city officials to paint “Black Lives Matter” on Broadway Street as part of a Fourth of July public art celebration, according to KPIX 5. City officials even supplied him with the yellow poster paint to make the mural.
“Because we were using the poster board paint that would eventually deteriorate over time, my understanding from them was that the mural
A tsunami warning has been issued late Tuesday night for much of the southern coast of Alaska and the Alaskan Peninsula after a preliminary 7.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded 75 miles off the town of Chignik at a depth of eight miles.
Reports indicated that sirens could be heard along coastal cities in the state.
The National Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami activity is forecasted to begin at 11:15 p.m. on Sand Point, shortly after midnight in Kodiak and about 10 minutes after that in Cold Bay.
The center informed all residents in the areas under warning to evacuate to higher ground or more inland.
The founder of a prominent political action committee opposing President Donald Trump’s reelection was arrested on Tuesday in part of a public corruption probe.Matthew Borges, a lobbyist and former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, was arrested in connection to a year-long $60 million federal bribery scheme. According to prosecutors, Borges and three other lobbyists allegedly conspired with the Republican Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives to secure a $1.3 billion taxpayer bailout for an Ohio-based energy company, FirstEnergy Solutions.Law enforcement officials claim that in exchange for helping FirstEnergy receive the bailout, which was meant to prevent the shutdown of two nuclear power plants, a nonprofit controlled by
Just weeks remain until Joe Biden announces his running mate, and more than a half-dozen women are top contenders in his search.The decision has the potential not only to define his candidacy and the tone of the Democratic ticket heading into the November election but make a statement about the direction of the Democratic Party and set up a front-runner for the presidency in 2024 or 2028 should he be elected.Biden, who said in a May fundraiser that he expects to announce his vice presidential pick around Aug. 1 ahead of the Aug. 17-20 Democratic National Convention, gave a clue on Monday
Hostile doesn’t begin to explain press antics
at Kayleigh McEnany presser, demands &
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at Kayleigh McEnany presser, demands &
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Stunned viewers sprang into debate earlier Tuesday when a tense back-and-forth between White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany and a reporter appeared to catch the correspondent insulting the press secretary under her breath.McEnany appears to have been responding to a question about what the Trump administration has done to ensure a smooth election in November when she references an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal lamenting New York City’s “mail-vote disaster,” in which the editorial board noted that ballots still have not been completely counted nearly a month after elections, leaving outcomes in doubt.As part of her response, McEnany cites data from the WSJ editorial, prompting the reporter to interrupt.
President Donald Trump thinks the prosecutor who charged a Missouri couple with unlawful weapon use for pulling guns on protesters outside their home is abusing her power, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Tuesday.Trump told McEnany that 'it is absolutely absurd what is happening to the McCloskeys,' referring to the St. Louis couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, and that 'this is an extreme abuse of power by the prosecutor,' she said.'He noted that this is an extreme abuse of power by the prosecutor and noteworthy that there have been many cases brought to her attention of violent rioters that she's failed to charge and instead she's charging
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany took aim at several Democratic leaders during a Tuesday appearance on “Hannity.”McEnany claimed that several Democratic governors — along with Democratic Mayors Lori Lightfoot (Chicago) and Bill de Blasio (New York City) — have “lost control” of their respective cities and states. Watch: (Video) Host Sean Hannity introduced McEnany by saying that he did not envy her job in the least. “I don’t think you can pay me enough money to do that job,” he said.Hannity went on to bring up the violence in a number of major cities — some of which have seen a steady stream of violence and unrest since
New York City’s progress fighting the coronavirus is doing little to help retailers, who say business in the city that never sleeps has become worse than anywhere else in the country.National retailers — from Shake Shack, Applebees, and cap seller Lids — say their Big Apple stores are bouncing back slower than even neighboring states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which were also hard hit by the coronavirus.The problem, sources say, is Manhattan, which used to be teeming with tourists and commuters who have largely stayed away since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March. Wealthy Manhattanites also have more resources and flexibility to escape, indefinitely, to greener pastures,
The Democratic-led House on Tuesday passed a sprawling $740 billion funding bill with a provision requiring the names of Confederate soldiers and leaders be stripped from military bases.The National Defense Authorization Act was passed with a bipartisan majority of 295 to 125. The bill also includes a 3 percent pay raise for US troops.It will now move to the Republican-controlled Senate for negotiations.Earlier on Tuesday, President Trump threatened to veto the bill if it requires the Defense Department to remove Confederate names from military bases.“Section 2829 is part of a sustained effort to erase from the history of the Nation those who do not