Posts on Friday, July 24, 2020
An Ohio man seen kneeling on the neck of a 2-year-old boy on social media has been arrested, authorities said Thursday.
Isaiah Jackson, 20, was booked into jail on a probation violation after the Clark County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation Tuesday into the photo, which depicts a man with his knee on the back of a white child neck’s along with a caption, “Blm now mf.”
A second person is also seen behind the child holding the youngster’s hands behind his back.
Deputies determined where the incident took place and made contact with Jackson as well as the child and the child’s mother, sheriff officials said.
Although the FBI has arrested three Chinese visa holders suspected of having memberships in the People’s Liberation Army, a fourth research visa fraud suspect is being protected in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, where U.S. law enforcement cannot enter unless invited.The People’s Liberation Army is under the command of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.“Four individuals have recently been charged with visa fraud in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), while in the United States conducting research.
David Rutz at the Washington Free Beacon took the time to confirm what everyone conservative could suspect: CNN's Media Unit obsesses over conservative or "far-right" media, and defends the left-wing press as somehow non-ideological.Over a six-month span from Jan. 22 to July 21, the media newsletter published by Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy mentioned "right-wing" or "far-right" media, personalities, or elements 172 times, while it mentioned "left-wing" or "far-left" just 8 times, a ratio of 21.5 to 1. It mentioned "conservative news" or "conservative media" 40 times, but mentioned "liberal news" or "liberal media" only 4 times in that span.
You can see the dissenting opinions of Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh here; Justice Alito's opinion is joined by Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh. The Justices in the majority (Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan), who decline to issue an injunction pending appellate review, haven't written an opinion (though note that injunctions from the Supreme Court pending appellate review are extraordinary remedies).
Fox News cut away on Friday from a White House briefing when Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany showed footage of violent demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, because the video included images of profane graffiti on a federal courthouse. “We were not expecting that video, and our management here at Fox News has decided we will pull away from that at this time,” said anchor Harris Faulkner. (Tweet/Video) Politico noted: FCC guidelines normally prohibit profanity between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on television when “there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.” Because Fox News is a cable service,
Pentagon Consultant Briefed
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A consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O program is speaking out about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.” Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007 told the New York Times he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about the alleged “off-world” vehicles. He also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee last October.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Kendrick Castillo’s parents spoke ahead of his confessed killer’s sentencing Friday afternoon. Castillo was killed in the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting in May 2019. Eight others were wounded. In February, 17-year-old Alec McKinney pleaded guilty to 17 charges related to the shooting. Devon Erickson, 19, is accused of carrying out the shooting alongside McKinney. Before McKinney’s sentencing, the court heard victim impact statements from a number of people, including Castillo’s parents.
John Castillo, Kendrick’s father, recalled the last time he saw his son: the morning of May 7, 2019.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Alec McKinney, the 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other charges stemming from the May 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, has been sentenced to life in the Department of Corrections with the possibility of parole plus 38 years. Judge Jeffrey Holmes announced the sentence Friday afternoon. In February, McKinney pleaded guilty to 17 charges related to the shooting that left one student, Kendrick Castillo, dead.
Castillo is one of the students credited with stopping the shooting.
A U.S. judge on Friday denied Oregon’s request to restrict federal agents’ actions when they arrest people during chaotic protests that have roiled Portland and pitted local officials against the Trump administration. Federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump to tamp down the unrest have arrested dozens during nightly demonstrations against racial injustice that often turn violent. Democratic leaders in Oregon say federal intervention has worsened the two-month crisis, and the state attorney general sued to allege that some people had been whisked off the streets in unmarked vehicles. U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman said the state lacked standing
Ratings for A&E Network have plummeted since it canceled the hit police reality show “Live PD” on June 10, a sign of how much the network relies on law-enforcement programming.
Average prime-time viewership for A&E between June 11 and July 19 was 498,000 people, down 49% from the same period last year, according to data from Nielsen. In the key demographics of adults 18-49 and 25-54, the declines are 55% and 53%, respectively.
The show, which follows police on their rounds in multiple cities simultaneously, averaged about 1.9 million viewers for its Friday and Saturday night episodes, repeatedly re-aired on other days. It spawned several successful spinoff shows, also canceled.
Wielding a hatchet, Otis Williams slaughtered a man and woman in Kankakee County in 1974 to keep them from talking to the police about meat, candy, cigarettes, vegetables and fruit he’d stolen from a market. Convicted in their deaths, Williams and an accomplice got prison terms of 800 to 2,400 years. In 2013, making his 30th appearance before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Williams finally succeeded in winning his freedom. The board said he was remorseful, a model inmate and no risk to the public. He was paroled by a vote of 11-4. Two years later, his accomplice A.D. Clark
As the US hit a sobering 4 million cases of COVID-19 and the rising daily rate of confirmed cases and hospitalizations suggest the virus is far from under control, medical experts are urging political leaders to shut down the country and start over to contain the pandemic. At least 4,038,748 coronavirus cases and 144,304 deaths were recorded in the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As the numbers climb, more than 150 prominent US medical experts, scientists, teachers, nurses and others have signed a letter to political leaders urging them to shut down the country and start
Folding up like a cheap suit, Chicago's mayor, Lori Lightfoot, ordered the removal of two statues of Christopher Columbus in the middle of the night in Chicago parks in response to mob threats to tear them down and riot another night. This, after weeks of rejecting the idea, and lecturing President Trump on the evils of sending U.S. officers into Chicago to help restore order.
Here's her wokesterly statement:
Later Friday morning, the mayor’s office released a statement saying that she had both statues “temporarily removed ... until further notice.”
“This step is about an effort to protect public safety
The Los Angeles Unified School District spends $18,788 per student. Its goal is to up that spending to $20,000. (Snip) The schools are aren’t opening in the fall. Instead, LAUSD is staying closed. But it has piled up $200 million in "emergency coronavirus costs" from handing out free computers and internet.
What are those billion-dollar budgets buying now?
The Zoom classes managed to have only two-thirds of students logging in on any given school day. 40,000 high school students were not participating after school closures. That’s not surprising because the teachers’ union had reached an agreement that would avoid any pay cuts, would allow teachers to set their own schedules,
Cleveland, Ohio—A local dance teacher is under investigation for allegations made by several of his students. 19 News investigators obtained a copy of the warrant issued Thursday morning for Terrence Greene’s arrest. The warrant says a former student told police Greene, 54, preformed oral sex on him in a dressing room at the Cleveland School of the Arts in 2008. The warrant says at the time, Greene was employed as a dance teacher by the school. It also says multiple other victims have come forward with other “extremely similar” incidents they say happened to them.(Snip) We uncovered years of complaints, ranging from
A pastor in Canada was fired for "theological reasons," her church said, after coming out as transgender in an online sermon. The Rev. Junia "June" Joplin, who is originally from North Carolina, surprised some in June with the announcement at Lorne Park Baptist Church in Mississauga, Ontario, during a service held online due to the coronavirus lockdown. "I want you to hear me when I tell you that I'm not just supposed to be a pastor. I'm supposed to be a woman," Joplin said.(Snip) More than half of the 111-member congregation voted to terminate the contract after Joplin came out,
I have already made the case that systemic racism in law enforcement is a myth. The claim that racist police are prowling the street searching for black men to murder is absurd on its face, and even absurder when you look at the facts. It is by now well publicized — at least in some corners — that, despite all of the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year. But an even closer look at the data, and a study of each “unarmed” killing, reveals that the real number of unjustified police shootings
President Trump signed four executive orders on Friday that aim to lower prescription drug prices, seeking to add to his healthcare reform credentials amid sagging approval ratings.“They represent the most far-reaching prescription drug reforms ever issued by a president, nothing even close,” Trump said in a press briefing on Friday.The orders would have to be translated into official rules by agencies and are not likely to be in place before the election. Still, Trump portrayed the signing as a blow for seniors against pharmaceutical companies and foreign freeloaders.The first of four orders will mandate discounts on insulin for hospitals to be passed down to patients.
Charlamagne Tha God just isn’t feeling it for Joe Biden. He made that perfectly clear during his radio show this week when he declared Biden the “Donkey of the Day”. During the Donkey of the Day segment of his radio show, the host went through his reasoning on why Biden should just “Shut the eff up forever.”You may remember that Biden is on thin ice with Charlamagne Tha God from his last appearance on The Breakfast Club– you know, the time he told the host that if he didn’t vote for Biden, “You ain’t black.”
St. Petersburg, Fla.—Home openers began this week in an unconventional way, and the Tampa Bay Rays used their Opening Day to share a message. "Today is Opening Day," according to a Twitter post on the Tampa Bay Rays' account, "which means it's a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor." In a follow-up tweet, the organization announced it will donate $100,000 to the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, the Pinellas County Urban League, the Equal Justice Initiative Remembrance Project, the NAACP chapter in Hillsborough County, and the People Empowering & Restoring Communities organization.
The tweet ended with "#BlackLivesMatter,"
President Trump signed a batch of executive orders Friday designed to slash drug prices in an election year, including a long-awaited push to align the price of Medicare drugs with what other developed nations pay. He said it is unfair that Americans bear the cost of Big Pharma’s research-and-development costs through high prices while “socialist” countries enjoy lower prices, often due to government-mandated caps. “We are bearing the entire cost of all of this. They are bearing none,” he said. “I’ve been waiting for this day a long time.”(Snip) Another executive order would force middlemen to pass certain rebates to consumers,
Harris Faulkner presses Marie Harf to
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Fox News’ Harris Faulkner challenged network contributor Marie Harf to name a Republican-run city that is currently under siege by rioters during an “Outnumbered” segment on Thursday. The discussion began with co-host Dagen McDowell ticking off a list of shootings in Chicago, long a Democratic stronghold, just in the past few days as the panel discussed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to accept federal assistance in bringing order to chaotic parts of the city, a reversal of her earlier position. “What if it works in Chicago? What if the police in that city can stop the daily murders?” McDowell said before ticking off a list of shootings and killings in just
Brian Papin, a Special Education teacher at Cedar Grove High School in Atlanta, Georgia who encouraged the Black Lives Matter supporter kneeling on a white baby’s neck in a viral photo to “lean into it until death” is no longer employed at the DeKalb County School District.According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Brian Papin resigned.“The teacher is no longer employed with DCSD. Again, there is no place for racism or abuse in our school district.” – DeKalb Schools said on Twitter.
One day after the state reported a grim new peak in coronavirus deaths, Friday saw a new high with 159 COVID-related deaths, marking back-to-back record days. Oddly, Newsom did not report the record number of new daily deaths at his COVID news conference. Neither was it mentioned in tweet pushed to the governor’s account during his speech. (Tweet) The record number of deaths was, however, listed on the state’s reporting site. The governor did report 9,718 new cases of the virus on Friday, down from the previous day’s massive spike. He said the 14 day positivity rate is now 7.5
Three federal agents who were sent to Portland, Ore., to try to help quell the city’s violent protests were “likely left permanently blinded” from clashes, White House officials said Friday. “A federal agent’s hand was impaled by planted nails, another federal agent was shot with a pellet gun, leaving a wound deep to the bone, and tragically, three federal officers were likely left permanently blinded by the rioters using lasers pointed directly into their eyes,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Friday. All five of the injured federal agents were hurt Monday during ongoing protests at the Multnomah County Justice Center
The draft 2020 Democratic National Committee platform being circulated in Washington aims to reinforce the view that liberals are best situated to battle for minorities seeking higher wages, better housing and jobs, and more money for schools.
With the August convention coming on the heels of the Black Lives Matter protests, it features support for the movement and an expanded pledge to root out racism.
The preamble says, “We will give hate no safe harbor. We will never amplify or legitimize the voices of bigotry, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or white supremacy.”
In promising change, it sets up one group that has it too good and is holding minorities back: whites.
The Democrat National Committee draft platform for its 2020 convention mentions “whites” a total of 15 times, each of them within a “damning” context — a detail first noticed by the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard.
“In more than 80 pages in the draft platform published by Politico, whites are mentioned 15 times, all critical, including three references to white supremacy or supremacists and one to white nationalists,” Bedard writes.
He adds, “In most mentions, the reference is to how whites are better off at the expense of others. And the promise often is to ‘close the gap’ between minorities and whites, though no solutions are offered.”
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To say that recent events in Portland are “troubling” understates their seriousness. We are witnessing the breakdown of law and order, with almost two months of riots, which the media whitewash as “mostly peaceful.” It is hard to know from a distance what is really happening on the streets of Portland, but certainly rumors are circulating, and being widely believed, that federal agents are arbitrarily arresting innocent people and brutalizing them. This is reported as fact without any attribution or source by people who should know better, including Fox News’s Judge Andrew Napolitano. But even more disturbing than mostly peaceful protests that occasionally turn violent and destroy property,
A conservative women’s group sued Mayor de Blasio and the city Department of Transportation for allowing a Black Lives Matter mural to be painted in front of Trump Tower — but blocking them from doing a similar mural. In the suit filed Thursday night in Manhattan federal court, Women for America First said they sent a letter to the mayor requesting permission to paint a mural of their slogan — “Engaging, Inspiring and Empowering Women to Make a Difference!” — on a roadway in Manhattan.
The human body has cells within the pancreas that regulate the level of sugar in the blood, but for some unclear reason the immune system occasionally attacks and kills them. When this happens a person develops Type 1 diabetes – a condition where the body no longer has the ability to produce insulin, the enzyme that sends sugar around the body to fuel essential functions.
‘Type 1 diabetes can lead to very serious complications and even to mortality,’ said Dr Ekaterine Berishvili, a diabetes expert from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Without a fully functioning pancreas, a person with diabetes risks prolonged high blood-glucose levels
Last week, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Canada-US border would remain closed for most people until at least Aug. 21, with additional extensions of the border closure possible beyond that date. Basically, it means that non-essential travel can’t take place between the two countries right now, which is no surprise given how the situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic in the US is continuing to spiral out of control. (Snip) Canadian truckers can still continue their work as normal — but, increasingly, they don’t want to.
Yankee great Mariano Rivera plays catch
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In somewhat of a role reversal, New York Yankees great Mariano Rivera appeared at President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefing while Dr. Anthony Fauci would soon be throwing out the first pitch on Major League Baseball’s opening night.But it was Rivera’s appearance that threw social media for a loop. President Trump and the Yankees legend celebrated Opening Day by hosting Little Leaguers in the Rose Garden, and even played a little game of catch, while Dr. Fauci appeared at the evening’s stellar game, a contest featuring World Series champion Washington Nationals and the Yankees. (Tweet/Video)
A new poll from Rasmussen Reports finds that Americans, by a majority, see Blacks as more racist than Whites. There’s a Black Lives Matter protest message just waiting to happen. This is hardly the line of thought the left would have believed—or that wants believed, for that matter. There’s money to be made in victimhood; there are careers—political careers, nonprofit careers, activist careers and more—to be made in racism.(Snip) Eighteen percent say most Whites in America are racist. Twenty-five percent say most Blacks in America are racist. Fifteen percent say most Hispanics in America are racist.
Trump awards Presidential Medal of
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Freedom to Jim Ryun, 'master of the
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President Trump Friday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jim Ryun, a three-time Olympian and former GOP congressman from Kansas, calling him a "legendary runner" and "true American patriot. He's a giant of American athletics and dedicated public servant and a man of charity, generosity, and faith," Trump said in a White House ceremony where Ryun was joined by his family.
The Washington Post on Friday agreed to settle a monster $250 million lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of his 2019 encounter with a Native American elder.Sandmann declared the victory in a tweet on his 18th birthday. It’s unclear how much the newspaper settled for.“On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit,” he wrote.“Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry & @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me.
For at least the second time, Joe Biden has claimed President Trump will attempt to “steal” the November election.During a Thursday evening virtual fundraiser, Biden said, “This president is going to try to indirectly steal the election by arguing that mail-in ballots don’t work,” the Guardian reported.Biden claimed, without evidence, Trump will argue mail-in ballots are “not real, they’re not fair.”Biden didn’t mention Trump votes via absentee ballot.In June, Biden told The Daily Show Trump will try to “steal” the election:
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican and vocal critic of President Trump, believes the president is likely to win reelection in November despite Trump’s poor poll numbers.Romney said in early June that he has “long thought” that Trump would win reelection. He explained his reasoning in an interview with the Huffington Post for an article published on Thursday.“There are enormous advantages to being the incumbent, number one,” Romney told HuffPost on Thursday. “Number two, I think [Trump] will tack more towards the middle in his communication than he has so far.”
Map: Track Tropical Storm Hanna
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Tropical Storm Hanna, the third active named storm and eighth of the Atlantic hurricane season, is on its way to Texas.
Crossing the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Hanna followed in Tropical Storm Gonzalo’s path, setting a record by being the earliest eighth-named storm of the Atlantic season, after Gonzalo became the earliest seventh-named storm. With sustained wind speeds of 40 mph, Hanna is forecast to gain strength until it makes landfall along the Texas coast Saturday. Strong winds should be expected along the coast in Texas by Friday night or Saturday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm will bring with it heavy rains
Tokyo would have begun hosting the Olympics today had not the coronavirus arrived. As it turns out, the 2028 Summer Games slated for Los Angeles might also be in doubt -- for political not pandemic reasons. NOlympicsLA launched a campaign calling on city leaders to scrap the competition eight years from now, boosted on Twitter by the trending hashtag #CancelTheOlympics. “We are years away from the games but we know that they’ll be used not only to boost the LAPD budget but to once again run with the recovery narrative,” the group declared this week.
Seattle—The Seattle Police Department (SPD) said a group of around 150 people caused “massive amounts of property damage” on Capitol Hill Wednesday night. Police said the group broke windows, looted businesses, shot off fireworks and started fires. According to police, the group gathered in Cal Anderson Park around 9 p.m. and started roaming the neighborhood.(Snip) The group broke windows of businesses as they walked to the 1500 block of 11th Avenue. The SPD said people from the group broke into Rove Vintage on that block, taking merchandise and then setting it on fire in the middle of the street.
Hundreds of woke employees at the Wall Street Journal signed a letter to the paper’s publisher complaining about the Journal’s op-ed page. The employees protested what they claim is the spread of “misinformation” in the Journal’s opinion section. One of the complaints focused on the publication of a column by Heather Mac Donald. The letter noted that “employees of color publicly spoke out about the pain [Mac Donald’s] Opinion piece caused them during company-held discussions surrounding diversity initiatives.” Poor babies. In response to the letter
The hatred of Donald Trump by the Democrats and some Republicans knows no boundaries. It is depraved and desperate at the same time. The latest attack on Donald Trump is pushing the meme that Trump is Hitler resurrected and is sending his “Nazi” storm troopers to cities such as Portland in order to terrorize women and children who are engaged in simple peaceful protest. The newest lie insists that Trump’s storm troopers are acting like Pinochet’s secret police and rounding up innocent people and shoving them into black vans. The implication is that these poor, humble souls are
A University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who was set to retire in August after a history of posting controversial social media comments has been found dead in his home, according to reports.
Mike Adams, 55, a tenured criminology professor, was found dead alone in his home when deputies with the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office conducted a welfare check about 2 p.m. Thursday, police spokesman Lt. Jerry Brewer told CNN.
The Washington Post is the latest news organization to settle a defamation lawsuit launched by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor. Sandmann announced the victory on Twitter.
"On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit. Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry & @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do," Sandmann wrote on Friday.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod refused to kneel during the national anthem Thursday night against the Dodgers.According to NBC Sports, members of the Giants took a knee during the national anthem, and Coonrod didn’t join them. Every member of both teams also kneeled before the anthem. The pitcher also didn’t participate in that action. The reason why? His Christian faith. (Tweet) “I’m a Christian, like I said, and I just can’t get on board with a couple of things that I have read about Black Lives Matter. How they lean toward Marxism and they’ve said some negative things about the nuclear family.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board responded Friday to pushback from staffers about the paper's opinion section and diversity in their newsroom, declaring that "we are not the New York Times" and that it will not succumb to "cancel culture."(Snip)"As long as our proprietors allow us the privilege to do so, the opinion pages will continue to publish contributors who speak their minds within the tradition of vigorous, reasoned discourse. And these columns will continue to promote the principles of free people and free markets, which are more important than ever in what is a culture of growing progressive conformity and intolerance."
A large crowd of people gathered Thursday in Portland, Oregon, for another night of protests, which have been ongoing in the city for over a month and a half. A night that began with largely peaceful crowds singing eventually devolved into tear gas, smoke canisters and fires on Federal courthouse property. Video showed the large crowd on the streets singing “hands up, please don’t shoot me” with their phone flashlights in the air. More people continued to arrive as the night went on.
The Police Officers Association of Michigan on Thursday endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election.
“Unlike most elections where political opponents share many opinions and goals, this presidential election presents two very different candidates,” President James Tignanelli wrote in a letter announcing the endorsement of President Trump over former Vice President Joe Biden.
The endorsement noted Trump restored the sharing of surplus military equipment for police officers, promised to veto a bill removing qualified immunity for police officers, and opposed defunding or “re-imaging” police departments.
The department praised Trump for his support for law enforcement throughout his presidency.
“He supports the police while the previous administration preferred to insult them
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. (SNIP) I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine.
The Yankees and Nationals knelt in unison before the first game of the season just days after Donald Trump said the game was 'over' for him when players took a knee. Players from both clubs knelt during the opening day ceremony Thursday night, which featured several references to the ongoing civil rights movement that was triggered by the Memorial Day 'murder' of George Floyd in Minneapolis.(Snip) In a poignant reference to the racial reckoning happening in the US, players and other members of both teams held a long black ribbon while standing spaced out along the two foul lines. After they placed the ribbon
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s staff appears to have tampered with evidence in order to press charges against the St. Louis woman who waved a gun at the Black Lives Matter rioters who stormed her neighborhood last month.
Patricia McCloskey’s gun was inoperable when she voluntarily surrendered it to the police, but prosecutors reassembled it into working order so they could charge her with a crime.
Gardner announced her intention to prosecute Mark and Patricia McCloskey after images of the gun-toting couple defending their $1.15 million home against the BLM mob went viral.
(Snip)after it had been rendered operable, wrote that it was “readily capable of lethal use” in charging documents.
The president of the police union in Denver, Colorado, Nick Rogers, confirmed on Wednesday that there had been a “stand-down” order in place during a pro-police rally held by conservative activists, as reported by Fox News.
(Snip)As a result of the order officially being in place, Denver police were prohibited from protecting attendees of the “Back the Blue” rally when Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other far-left terrorist organizations suddenly appeared and began attacking the demonstrators.
One of the leaders of the pro-cop rally was conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who described the attackers as wielding collapsible batons as they attacked her and others who were speaking onstage
Presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden recollected with the Service Employees International Union on Wednesday a moment when he said a caring nurse “blew into my nostrils” in the hospital. [Tweet]
“I had a nurse– nurses at Walter Reed hospital who would bend down and whisper in my ear, go home and get me pillows. They would … actually breathe in my nostrils to make me move, to get me moving.”
Biden said such a thing wouldn’t be allowed “during COVID time,” but it’s not clear when such a practice would ever be allowed in a hospital setting.
In December 2018, a well-regarded left-leaning think tank published a 4,500-word defense of the Steele dossier, the document central to the government’s charge that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the presidential election.
Lawfare, a project of the Brookings Institution, defended the dossier as “a collection of raw intelligence” that was similar to forms used by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to transcribe information obtained by witnesses.
“The dossier holds up well over time, and none of it, to our knowledge, has been disproven,” wrote Chuck Rosenberg and Sarah Grant in a judgement that did not hold up well over time.
Poll results released Wednesday by American Principles Project (APP) and SPRY Strategies found that President Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in seven of ten battleground states, with a narrow lead in four of them.
According to the poll, Trump is currently leading Biden in Georgia (49-46 percent); Kentucky (60-34 percent); Michigan (50-45 percent); Montana (52-42 percent); North Carolina (49-46 percent); Pennsylvania (48-47 percent); and Texas (49-45 percent).
The results also indicate Biden is leading Trump in Arizona (49-45 percent); Iowa (48-46 percent); and Wisconsin (46-45 percent).
“It is clear from our polling that the reports of President Trump’s impending electoral doom are greatly exaggerated,” said Terry Schilling, executive director at APP,
Rep. Louie Gohmert, Republican from Texas, introduced a resolution that would ban the Democratic Party, among other organizations, based on historical truths about the left’s embrace of racism and blatant support of slavery.
It’s a resolution that yes, is eye-widening — but at least it strikes the right spirit. At least it raises a valid point.
The issue of how some of the most privileged people in the world treat children is getting more traction. After the arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, millions of ordinary people are critically examining the actions of Hollywood celebrities, titans of business, powerful politicians, media corporations, and other elite groups. Scenarios that previously seemed unthinkable are becoming more thinkable by the day.
Chrissy Teigen is a popular model and actress who’s married to singer John Legend. She’s also a prolific writer of tweets that feature her disturbing fantasies about children.
On Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump the first racist president in U.S. history.
Biden claimed, "The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they're from, is absolutely sickening. No sitting president has ever done this, never, never, never."
He further stated, "the way he pits people against one another is all designed to divide the country, divide people, not pull them together." Charges of racism will dramatically increase as we near the 2020 elections. The Democratic Party appears to be losing its grip on the Black vote
It started with Hillary Clinton, who has spent the last three-and-a-half years insisting that she was cheated out of her rightful place in the Oval Office. Last week, she opined, “Well, I think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not, if he loses, he’s going to go quietly or not.” And then she issued the marching order: “And we have to be ready for that.”
How does one get ready to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States? After all, the Democrats’ Deep State efforts during Trump’s first term have failed.
I wasn’t born on the Texas coast, but as the old saying goes, I got there as fast as I could. I come from Temple originally, landlocked deep in the state’s interior. We didn’t lack for watery recreation in Central Texas, where there are plentiful creeks, rivers, and lakes, all of which we regularly availed ourselves of. But there was, of course, neither a sandy beach nor a Gulf of Mexico in sight.
That seashoreless existence came to an end when I was about four years old. In 1970, my dad, a hardworking Temple attorney active in civic affairs who had earned an occasional respite, purchased a small beachside unit
As President Trump seeks to maintain law and order during upheavals in major American cities, he would be well served to remember the painful lessons of Hurricane Katrina. In a pivotal moment, at a podium in Louisiana in 2005, President George W. Bush chose not to allow Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin to take the full blame for their poor leadership. As leaders do, Bush stepped in to rescue the situation. Yet, rescuing takes on many forms, and leaders often need to look beyond the immediate to see others in need of assistance.
If you criticize this political party you can be charged with a hate crime. The political party is Black Lives Matter, and their messaging has been so effective that any lack of support is seen as hateful and racist. But in American civic discourse, it is unacceptable for a political party to have the power to compel people to agree with it simply to secure their own safety.
The movement that began to bring attention to and to stop the unlawful killing of black people in America at the hands of police has since taken up additional causes that have far reaching implications into social and political life,
As the presidential election draws closer, the Biden campaign’s strategy has increasingly focused on blaming Trump for disease, depression, and racial unrest. Presidents, like coaches of sports teams, get too much credit during good times and too much blame when troubles occur. The last six months have brought a motherlode of bad luck on Trump's campaign; the worst pandemic in a century; a massive lockdown of the economy; public health measures resulting in 40 million people out of work and living in extreme social isolation; weeks of rioting with widespread looting, unopposed attacks on police and the burning down of many businesses. While Trump is responsible for none of it,
Freedom to Deface
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Mayor Bill de Blasio has cancelled a graffiti-eradication program targeted at cleaning private buildings. He is thus deliberately sending New York City back to its worst days of crime and squalor.
The symbolic significance of this cancellation is as large as its practical effect. Nothing sent a stronger signal in the late 1980s that New York was determined to fight back from anarchy than the transit system’s campaign against subway graffiti. That campaign was based on Broken Windows theory, the most transformative idea in urban policy over the last 40 years. Broken Windows recognizes that physical disorder and low-level lawlessness—graffiti, turnstile-jumping, and litter—
Has Trump finally turned a corner? Sure looks like it, with a sizable rebound in the polls.
According to Rasmussen, one of the most reliable pollsters, Trump is running neck and neck with Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Here's Paul Bedard's Washington Examiner report:
A week after finding that Trump closed a 10-point gap with Biden to just 3 points, Rasmussen Reports today revealed that Trump has edged up another point as Biden hits a ceiling.
On Wednesday, the race stood at 45% for Trump and 47% for Biden, well within the poll's margin of error. It was published in Rasmussen's weekly "White House Watch" feature.
Are the cities emptying out?
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Much of what's most important in social trends, the things real people really do, isn't reported, especially if it doesn't fit the narrative. So, while the record-setting 21% jump in existing home sales in June made headlines, a key trend wasn’t mentioned.
Millions of Americans are voting with their feet. They’re leaving the cities. In Michigan, despite some of the nation’s worst unemployment -- engineered in large part by our governor -- homes priced around $200,000 are often on the market for about a day. Much more expensive homes in northern Michigan, hundreds of miles from Detroit and Grand Rapids, are also selling quickly.
Why?
Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Donald Trump “the biggest failure in the history of our country.”She said “the Trump virus” was rolling like “a freight train through the country.”Pelosi said, “Let me say this president has been the biggest failure practically in the history of our country. A pandemic that is rolling. Trump virus I call it, it’s rolling like a freight train. It took nearly 100 days, just about 100 days to get the first 1 million. Just under 50 days to get to the second million, just over 25 days to get to the third million and now,
Joe Biden is at it again. This time he is criticizing President Trump for holding the ruling dictatorship in China responsible for unleashing COVID-19 on the world because, according to Biden, the average American is supposedly incapable of differentiating between persons from various Asian countries.Biden’s comment is irrelevant to the current geopolitical situation, however.On a Livestream from his Delaware basement, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee angrily declared: “Look what [Trump] is doing now. He’s blaming everything on China.
The Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park was removed hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for its removal.Two cranes pulled their way up to the statue just before 2 a.m. Friday, after hours of vocal confrontations between protestors and supporters of the statue, including John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7. The decision to take down two monuments to Columbus came after violent clashes between police and protesters broke out last week when activists attempted to tear down a statue of the Italian explorer in Grant Park.
One single mother in Kansas City, MO, struck it big when she found a $1 bill on the street that turned into a winning lottery ticket. But Shetara Sims, the lucky $100 winner, didn't keep it for personal use. Her 12-year-old daughter was with her at the time and suggested, "Mom, we should give that to the police officer who got shot," meaning an officer who was shot in early July and is currently in the ICU. She instantly agreed.
The Kansas City Missouri Police Department, knowing that Sims had recently lost her job, tried to convince her to keep her winnings. But she refused, telling them
When President Trump insisted last month that his supporters included a substantial silent majority that isn’t represented in the polls, the Democrats and the corporate media devoted a surprisingly large amount of energy to “debunking” the claim. Indeed, their reaction was so shrill and ubiquitous that they seemed, to paraphrase Hamlet’s hapless mother, to be protesting too much. A new poll released Wednesday by the Cato Institute suggests a reason for this frantic reaction to Trump’s assertion. The survey of 2,000 Americans 18 years of age and older unambiguously indicates that the reluctance of moderates and conservatives to share their political views has increased significantly since 2017.
Jeb Bush once rebuked candidate Trump by sneering that the plain-speaking New Yorker couldn't insult his way to the White House. Of course, Jeb! was wrong! (snip) What President Trump has always understood, and what the Democrats have found too difficult to grasp, is that the "art of the insult" works only when you target the small number of people with all the power, not the great majority of Americans with no power at all.
Hillary Clinton called half of America "deplorable" and "irredeemable," and Pennsylvanians, Wisconsinites, and Michiganders knew she was talking about them.
Jemele Hill is certain that every single Trump voter is inherently racist
Recently, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity awkwardly collided during the nightly handoff between their respective shows. (snip) This curious incident is yet another example of the growing divide between conservatives who are willing and able to engage in the current ideological conflict and those who are still "fighting the last war." Hannity and his ilk like the overwrought, elderly Sheriff Bell in the film No Country for Old Men find themselves completely outmatched by a new species of adversary who eschews all the old well known patterns of behavior.
To many, the sound of a roaring Harley is iconic — an audible symbol of American freedom and ingenuity. To Wisconsinites especially, seeing a Harley on the road is a source of pride, as Milwaukee serves as the company’s global headquarters. Yet to Daniel Navarro, the sight and sound of a Harley represented white supremacy. As a result of that misplaced rage, over the July 4 weekend Navarro allegedly decided to take out his prejudice on Phillip Thiessen, swerving his pickup truck head-on into Thiessen. With the exception of a few local news outlets, the incident has received little attention. It simply does not fit
The Wall Street Journal editorial board blamed “progressive cancel culture” for a letter signed by 280 of its reporters calling out the paper’s opinion section for spreading misinformation.
In a note to its readers published on Thursday night, the editorial board said it wouldn’t respond to the original letter which called for better fact-checking, more transparency, and a clearer divide between news and opinion divisions, according to a draft of it obtained by Mediaite on Tuesday. The board writes:
In the spirit of collegiality, we won’t respond in kind to the letter signers. Their anxieties aren’t our responsibility in any case.
Newly declassified internal Federal Bureau of Investigation documents prove the top U.S. law enforcement agency used a so-called defensive briefing of the Trump campaign in 2016 to spy on and collect information about Donald Trump himself. The new documents, which are just the latest in a string of declassifications regarding the FBI operation to spy on the Trump campaign and later the Trump administration, detail the FBI’s attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself.
The documents were formally declassified by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on July 23 then provided
Trump ends AFFH
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The Trump administration has ditched the Obama administration’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rule (AFFH). As we have often reported, AFFH is a vast social engineering project that enables the federal government to order more than 1,200 cities and counties that accept any part of annual community development block grants to rezone neighborhoods along income and racial criteria. It thus allows unaccountable federal bureaucrats to dictate who lives where, in order to create racially and economically balanced neighborhoods. It effectively abolishes self-government in the suburbs.
I’m surprised that it took the Trump administration three-and-half years to revoke AFFH.
Once again, the leaders of the Success Academy charter network are showing what it means to truly put children and their education first.
Every year, SA schools start classes weeks earlier than the regular public schools. With the coronavirus still likely an issue this fall, the network planned to do a “blended” opening, with some kids in classrooms and others doing online work on any given day. But the city pulled the rug out from under them by announcing that it won’t allow any school buildings to open before mid-September — indeed, it won’t even decide until Labor Day if any doors at all will open.
The issues seem to be twofold:
On Thursday morning, the Biden campaign released a video of Joe Biden “in conversation” with Barack Obama. It makes for tedious viewing, as the two marinate in each other’s perceived wonderfulness, trading compliments and seconding each other’s empty musings.
The two scoff at Trump’s “inability” to “take responsibility.” We never took that tack, chortles Obama, who famously believed in “leading from behind.” He then unburdens himself of the profound insight that leaders must be “able to relate,” a quality, he says, that Biden has in abundance. The Democrats, you see, have a monopoly on empathy.
Give credit where due for thinking outside of the box, I guess, although this idea belongs in a box … buried under the St. Anthony Falls. In the Minneapolis city council’s haste to prove it doesn’t need a professional and trained police force to keep the peace, they nearly decided to pay ad hoc bands of armed citizens to patrol the streets. Only late inquiries about this proposal from city residents and local media managed to change their minds: The Minneapolis City Council briefly considered diverting money from police to citizen patrols, with the council’s public safety chairwoman suggesting an armed group as one that could potentially benefit.
As gun violence in Chicago increased exponentially over the past decade, African Americans were overwhelmingly impacted. Local leaders continue to grapple with how to combat the spike while opposing plans by the Trump administration to deploy federal agents to the city.
From Jan. 1, 2010 through July 8 of this year, Black homicide victims accounted for 4,374 of the city's murders, according to figures provided by the Chicago Police Department to Fox News. The second-largest group impacted by gun violence -- Hispanics and Black Hispanics -- totaled 785 murder victims over the same period.
The murder rate of Black victims held steady, never surpassing 400 annually until 2016.
China on Friday ordered the closure of the U.S. consulate in the western city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province in apparent retaliation for the Trump administration closing China’s Houston consulate over accusations of espionage.
“The measure taken by China is a legitimate and necessary response to the unjustified act by the United States,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“The current situation in Chinese-U.S. relations is not what China desires to see. The United States is responsible for all this,” the ministry said.
Inconsistencies are emerging in claims made by Cathy Areu, a once-periodic Fox News guest, that she was harassed by some of the network’s biggest names — including prime time anchor Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. New emails obtained by Mediaite shed further light on the case.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday in the Southern District of New York, Areu claims she was harassed by Carlson, Hannity and other employees of the network, and that she was largely barred from appearing after she declined their advances. In an initial response the company said the claims were “completely false.”
Chicago — A group of roughly 1,000 protesters marched to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home Thursday evening.
The group started their protest and rally in Logan Square with calls to defund the Chicago Police Department.
By around 9 p.m., the group was by the mayor’s home.
Some of the marchers were from the group Good Kids Mad City and in addition to their calls to defund the police, they also called for more resources to help underserved communities.
Also Thursday, reports said the mayor was planning to remove the controversial Christopher Columbus statue from Grant Park.