Posts on Saturday, July 25, 2020
'Go woke, go broke' comes to A&E
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When the Marxist mob used George Floyd's death as an excuse to ramp up its ongoing war on policing, A&E instantly caved. That proved to be a costly decision. News broke Friday that the cable network has lost almost 50% of its viewers.
When it was founded back in 1984, the Arts & Entertainment Network was going to be a highbrow cable show, focusing on fine arts, documentaries, and dramas, many imported from Britain. A generation of women remembers being introduced to Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in A&E's Pride and Prejudice. This highbrow fare, though, wasn't bringing in revenue.
Over 90 field organizers for the Florida Democratic Party signed a scathing letter Friday to the party’s leadership, claiming among other things that the campaign is “suppressing the Hispanic vote” in Central Florida.
The seven-page internal letter, obtained by the Miami Herald, contains eight allegations from field organizers about what they say is a lack of a “fully actionable field plan” from the Biden campaign as it transitions into the Florida party to coordinate voter outreach efforts.
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Among the claims: mistreatment of field organizers, relocating trained staff members without explanation, lack of organizing resources and taking on volunteers who are then left in limbo.
While speaking with Laura Ingraham on Fox News on Monday, July 20, Yale epidemiology professor Dr. Harvey Risch said hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), if used properly, could save between 75,000 and 100,000 lives and can also be taken safely as a preventative. His findings were published in the May 27 American Journal of Epidemiology to no effect. A similar French study in early March reported similar evidence of success using HCQ to combat COVID-19. The French report was dismissed as anecdotal.
Dr. Risch insisted that HCQ is effective and safe, but he has become the victim of a "propaganda war" ever since President Trump recommended it back in March.
A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China, the latest incident in a growing stand-off between Washington and Beijing.
Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, US officials say.
Separately, the US said a Chinese researcher accused of hiding her ties to China's military was detained.(snip)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision was taken because China was "stealing" intellectual property.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded by saying that the US
SEATTLE - Police declared a riot Saturday afternoon after another day of peaceful protest was hijacked by looters who injured police officers, lit "explosive" fires and caused widespread damage in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Up to 1,000 protesters gathered about 2 p.m. Saturday for a peaceful march in solidarity with unrest and violent demonstrations in Portland. By 4 p.m., crowds had broken away from the protest, setting fires to construction trailers at the Juvenile Detention Center and attacking camera crews. One officer was hospitalized with a leg injury caused by an explosive. Two other officers were treated and returned to
The Queen attended the unveiling of a new portrait of herself in a virtual Zoom call and was said to have reacted 'very positively' to the new artwork. Miriam Escofet painted the portrait, which was commissioned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as a 'lasting tribute to Her Majesty's service' to diplomacy. But the Queen proved her own attention to detail during the grand unveiling, as she joked that a tea cup featured in the painting had no tea in it. The Queen saw the painting for the first time on her computer screen,
Detectives are investigating whether a black Donald Trump supporter was shot and killed in Milwaukee over his politics. Bernell Trammell, 60, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Thursday at 12.30pm in the neighborhood where he was known for his signs that said 'Vote Trump 2020' and recited Bible versus. He was found dead in front of his business where he sold his eXpressions Journal and had handmade placards backing a range of movements including Black Lives Matter in the window. A memorial with flowers and candles has now been set up on the sidewalk as police look into what happened.
Friday, during an interview that aired on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” acting Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli weighed in on the civil unrest plaguing several American cities.Guest host Lisa Boothe asked Cuccinelli why those cities should not have to deal with the consequences given that the elected leadership in those cities was allowing it to happen. He also argued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should be held accountable for her “libelous” statements regarding the agents of the entities involved in the effort to protect federal government property.“You know, I’m this close to agreeing, except we have a federal mission at the Department of Homeland Security,
President Trump’s approval ratings are in. He is enjoying a 49% approval rating – better than Obama’s at the same respective time period in his Presidency.
Rasmussen Reports announced their results today: [Tweet]
Not only is President Trump recording an overall 49% approval rating but Blacks and other minorities are on the Trump Train bigly. Other minorities give President Trump a stunning 57% approval rating while Blacks match the rest of the population at 49%.
These are terrible news for the Democrats, who bring a horrible candidate to the 2020 Presidential election.
St Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell and his new Head of the St Louis County Conviction Review Unit, Dana Balzer, held a press conference on Friday to discuss an investigation into the recent Galleria Mall shooting in St Louis.
Then Bell surprised onlookers by announcing charges against two police officers in a separate investigation who reportedly fired at a suspect after the suspect reportedly tried to run them over.
Neither Bell or Balzer had any idea what they were talking about in regards to the arrests of police officers.
Bell appeared to have trouble reading his notes and appeared severely incompetent and perhaps illiterate.
HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge has ruled that Connecticut officials cannot keep court proceedings and documents secret for teenagers charged with the most serious crimes — a decision that will reopen Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder case to the public. U.S. District Judge Michael Shea in Hartford ruled Friday that a state law approved last year — with the intent of protecting juveniles' identities when their cases are transferred to adult court and only unsealing documents if they are convicted — violates the First Amendment right of access to the courts, The Hartford Courant reported. The decision came in a lawsuit challenging the Correction*
The United States has warned it will become more active in the Arctic, to counter growing Russian influence and efforts by China to position itself in the resource-rich region. During a brief visit to Denmark, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hailed the reopening of the US consulate in the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland and unveiled a sustainable fisheries and commercial engagement agreement with the Faroe Islands, another Danish territory in the North Atlantic. "It's a new day for the United States in Greenland,'' Pompeo told reporters at a joint news conference with Danish foreign minister Jeppe Kofod on Wednesday.
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Australia has sent a diplomatic note to the United Nations rejecting China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea, joining the growing list of nations that have pushed back against Beijing’s presumption of “historic rights” to the disputed waters. The note was sent to the UN on Thursday and posted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf’s website on Friday morning. Australia is the latest in a small but emerging chorus of nations that are describing as illegal China’s position that it holds economic and maritime rights to nearly all of the South China Sea. (snip) Australia’s note follows similar diplomatic submissions from the United States,
Turkey and Greece exchanged harsh words on Saturday over the conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque, a day after Islamic prayers were held at the ancient site for the first time in nine decades. President Tayyip Erdogan, who attended Friday’s ceremony that sealed his ambition to restore Muslim worship at Hagia Sophia, did not name Greece but said critics of the move were simply against Muslims and Turkey.
Company Drops ‘Coon’ Cheese Name in Australia
as Black Lives Matter Forces Corporate Reckoning replies
as Black Lives Matter Forces Corporate Reckoning replies
Saputo will drop the “Coon” name from its popular cheese products in Australia, the latest company to change branding amid a corporate reckoning on systemic racism. The Canadian food giant is working to develop a new brand name “that will honor the brand affinity felt by our valued consumers while aligning with current attitudes and perspectives,” it said in a statement posted online. The company says its cheese brand was named after founder Edward William Coon. But the word ‘coon’ is more popularly recognized as a racist term with its roots in American slavery, an abbreviation of the word ‘raccoon’
The United States is planning to deploy the deadly Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence System in Guam in preparation of an attack with China. As Sino-American tensions continue to escalate, experts suspect that the island of Guam could be targeted by Beijing. Phil Davidson, the US Navy admiral in charge of Indo-Pacific Command was the latest to voice his concern. He says that an attack by Chinese could remove from the map the U.S. Air Force’s main Pacific base for bombers and other heavy warplanes. To protect the US base in Guam, the US should deploy the Aegis missile-defence system(snip). Aegis Ashore could function as “the backbone of [a] homeland defence
Regis Philbin, the beloved television host whose broadcast reign spanned from morning talk shows to primetime game shows, has died at the age of 88. “We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday,” Philbin’s family said in a statement to People. “His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him – for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about. We thank his fans
Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green has died. He was 73. According to a family statement released on Saturday, the English singer-guitarist died in his sleep. "It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep," the statement reads. The London-based law firm Swan Turton Solicitors said a further statement will be provided in the coming days. The blues rock guitarist formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1967. Green, to some listeners, was the best of the British blues guitarists of the 1960s. B.B. King once said Green “has the sweetest tone I ever heard.
Adam Milne, the owner of Old Town Pizza & Brewing, realized he had to shut down his flagship Portland taproom on July 9 after the business closed out the day with just $18.75 in sales. As he walked through downtown and saw the boarded-up storefronts and empty streets that day, it was hard for Milne to envision customers returning to his restaurant anytime soon. He knew he couldn’t keep bleeding money by keeping the taproom open. “I think all restaurants are really hurting and struggling, but I’m not sure if the city and state officials realize that to be a
So we have sports back, starting with major league baseball in empty stadiums, but with artificial crowd noise piped into TV broadcasts as if the game is an unfunny sitcom or something. And in one sense it is an unfunny sitcom, since so many players seem intimidated into the political exhibitionism of kneeling for the national anthem. Here’s a thought: if we want to get real crowds into stadiums, let’s label the games as “BLM protests” instead, since they are exempt from the social distancing rules. The crowd can sing the Black national anthem during the 7th inning stretch, or perhaps a new tune—
Though it doesn’t get as much attention as the “Miracle on Ice” at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Upstate New York, the “Miracle on the Mat” that American wrestler Rulon Gardner was able to pull off against Aleksandr Karelin of Russia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney is an equally impressive underdog story.
Prior to Gardner defeating him, Karelin, a super heavyweight who once lugged a refrigerator home from the store and carried it up eight flights of steps to his apartment, hadn’t just won gold in three straight Olympics — he was a titan, an unstoppable force of nature, a mass of muscle
The Wages of Woke
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Dr. Robin DiAngelo, the bestselling author of White Fragility, claims to believe in accountability. DiAngelo used to list the "racial justice" organizations she donates to as part of her extensive "accountability statement," including a monthly "land rent" paid to the Native American tribe that used to occupy Seattle.
But when the Washington Free Beacon began contacting the organizations she listed as recipients of her largesse, DiAngelo scrubbed the site, removing their names and the dates of her giving from the public domain—a version of the page remains available through the Internet Archive after briefly being unavailable due to what the site said were technical issues.
Tucker guest exposes what made Matt
Drudge – ‘now firmly a man of the Left’ –
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Drudge – ‘now firmly a man of the Left’ –
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said during his show on Friday that once-conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge of “The Drudge Report” is “now firmly a man of the progressive Left,” noting that his site has taken on a decidedly anti-President Trump bent in recent months.“For decades, Matt Drudge was one of the most influential figures in conservative journalism. His self-titled Drudge Report broke news and set priorities in digital media,” Carlson said as he began a segment with Drudge biographer Matthew Lysiak.“Republican presidential candidates made wooing the famously secretive Drudge a high priority,” he continued. “And for several of them it paid off big, including Donald Trump.”
One of the great lessons of the 14th century Bubonic Plague was that rats make terrible pets.Even as loathed vermin scurrying along sewer ditches and darkened corners inside people’s homes, rats — and the fleas they carried — proved capable of killing tens of millions of people around the globe. The havoc they wreaked dramatically altered the course of human history.To be sure, rats are amazing, relentless, adaptable creatures. They are virtually un-killable. For every one you finally manage to execute, six more pop up in its place, each generation smarter and more efficient than the last.Anyone who has waged war on rats cannot help but marvel
The mysterious “Primary Subsource” that Christopher Steele has long hidden behind to defend his discredited Trump-Russia dossier is a former Brookings Institution analyst -- Igor “Iggy” Danchenko, a Russian national whose past includes criminal convictions and other personal baggage ignored by the FBI in vetting him and the information he fed to Steele, according to congressional sources and records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Agents continued to use the dossier as grounds to investigate President Trump and put his advisers under counter-espionage surveillance.
The 42-year-old Danchenko, who was hired by Steele in 2016 to deploy a network of sources to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia for the Hillary Clinton campaign,
China offers $1 billion loan
to Latin America and the Caribbean
for access to its Covid-19 vaccine replies
to Latin America and the Caribbean
for access to its Covid-19 vaccine replies
Mexico City (CNN)Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced a $1 billion loan to Latin America and the Caribbean for Covid-19 vaccine access during a virtual gathering with his Latin American counterparts on Wednesday, according to a statement released by the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry.
"China's Foreign Minister said that the vaccine developed in his country will be a public benefit of universal access, and that his country will designate a loan of $1 billion to support access [to the vaccine] for the nations of the region," the statement said.
Many Americans got to know Mike Rowe as the host of “Dirty Jobs With Mike Rowe,” which ran from 2005 to 2012 on the Discovery Channel — almost 170 episodes of him trying his hand at the grimiest, craziest professions he could find.(Snip)This time, the fan asked Mike a question about the Wuhan coronavirus… and I’m not too sure she got the answer she expected. She wrote: "...Is it really so important to film a television show in the midst of pandemic?..."
“People will do what they do,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shrugs.
It’s not just tearing down statues of Columbus. Or of Washington, Lincoln, or Douglass.Mobs light churches on fire. They attack federal police officers with bricks, urine, feces, and pigs’ feet. They blind law enforcement officers with lasers. They burn down pawn shops with a man still inside, only discovered months after the news cameras left town. Yes, people – radical, America-hating domestic terrorists, to be precise – do evil things. When Democrats let them.
This is what is happening in countless Democrat-controlled cities. In Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and New York crime is skyrocketing,
Law school is a notorious scam.
In the course of three years, young victims pay for courses in property law but don’t learn how to buy a house. They take courses in contract law but are never taught how to write one. They take courses in litigation procedures but in a courtroom they literally don’t know when to stand up and when to sit down. In fact, it’s common for students to graduate without having seen the inside of a courtroom.
In the works of William Shakespeare, the “cuckold,” a man with an unfaithful wife, occasionally makes an appearance. He is associated with shame and humiliation because the implication is that he can neither control nor please his bride.
(Snip) Enter the nasty lot that make up the effete-Right.
Ostensibly, this lot stands for the “principles” that President Trump lacks. No one outside of their allies at CNN or their own circle believes that line but, so far as they are concerned, that’s all that matters.
(Snip)they are exemplified by the uniformly anti-Trump publication, The Bulwark. As for specific individuals, a few names come to mind;(Snip) George Will is an exemplar.
Recently, in what constitutes the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned Texas showdown, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban met in the middle of the Twitter community’s Main Street and exchanged fire.
The genesis of the dispute was conservative talk radio host Mark Davis’ statement that he would be “out” if Mavericks players took a knee during the national anthem in a show of support for the Black Lives Matters movement. Not surprisingly, Cuban defended his players by responding to Davis with “Bye.”
Not surprisingly, too, Senator Cruz took exception to Cuban’s cavalier attitude toward Texans who believe kneeling for the national anthem is disrespectful. This
The coronavirus pandemic has been great for streaming services as consumers quarantine at home and watch more video. The same can’t be said for regular TV.
AT&T reported it lost another 886,000 cable and satellite TV subscribers in the second quarter of 2020. The telecommunications giant—the second largest TV provider in the US behind only Comcast—lost about the same number of TV subscribers in the previous quarter. Its total subscriber base has eroded 18% in the last year alone.
If sports were still on TV, AT&T and other providers may have been able to temporarily slow down the acceleration of cord-cutting. But without sports, expensive TV bundles don’t offer consumers enough value.
Throughout this time of leftist violence, churches around the country have been vandalized and statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary desecrated. In several instances – a church in New Haven, Connecticut, and a resort in Montana among them – the culprits left graffiti supporting anarchy and the Marxist group Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter leader Sean King has tweeted, “I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been.”Of course, leftism has always stood in opposition to religion.
During a press conference on Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) stated that the criticism of his nursing home policies during the coronavirus pandemic is “all politics” and that the issue is being pushed by those who are “politically motivated” at the New York Post and Fox News.Cuomo responded to a question on the New York Department of Health’s nursing home report and whether he would have an independent investigator do a report by saying, “I don’t believe your characterization is correct. I believe it is a political issue. I think it’s the New York Post. I think it’s Michael Goodwin
Minneapolis - Residents filed a record number of complaints about Minneapolis police in recent months, including the time since the killing of George Floyd on May 25. Almost 700 complaints have been entered into the city’s system since April, with the majority of complaints tied to officers in south Minneapolis’ 3rd Precinct. The level of complaints in the second quarter of the year was almost five times higher than usual, according to city records. The increase in complaints came as protests and other civil unrest spread across the Twin Cities in the wake of Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police
It was Meghan and Harry against the palace “vipers.” Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were so popular internationally that they were eclipsing the rest of the royal family — so a coterie of snake-like royal courtiers, the so-called “men in gray suits,” worked to thwart them, according to excerpts from a new biography that is very sympathetic to the famous couple. “Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family,” which is being serialized by the Times of London starting this weekend, said the palace “establishment’’ lived in fear of the couple’s global appeal. So courtiers worked
Americans kept from funerals, work, church
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fume over jammed demonstrations allowed
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A growing number of Americans concerned about continued coronavirus restrictions are questioning the need for such policies like business closures and mask mandates as tens of thousands gather in the streets around the country to demonstrate and protest. Video clips from such gatherings, often involving thousands of mostly mask-less people, are replete on social media, drawing ire from Americans who are pushing for COVID restrictions to be lifted so that businesses can fully reopen, along with schools, sporting and concert venues, and others.“It turns out you can attend church services in America. As long as it’s the church of social justice,” tweeted journalist Barrett Wilson on Friday,
Texas authorities issued a hurricane warning Friday for residents along the coast after record-breaking Tropical Storm Hanna gained strength as it hurtled through the Gulf of Mexico. Hanna is now expected to make landfall in Texas as a hurricane, bringing a life-threatening swell on Saturday afternoon at the same time as Hurricane Douglas is forecast to descend on Hawaii. The storms come as both states are grappling with a rise in coronavirus cases, with officials branding the oncoming dangerous weather systems as 'a potential disaster inside of a current disaster'.
When Trump had his interview last Sunday with Chris Wallace, Trump made two points: The first was that Joe Biden’s brain is running on empty. The second was that Trump had taken a test of his cognitive ability and passed, but it was “very hard.” Leftists fell over themselves laughing because, as they repeatedly claimed, the test is a dead easy one intended to prove minimal mental functioning. (snip) The Biden campaign is now in a corner. If Biden doesn’t take the test, he looks as if he’s hiding because he can’t pass. And if he takes the test, few in America would be surprised
Even as I write the title for this article, I wonder: Is that in fact possible? Can we be prepared for a hostile takeover? (snip) Where would we go? France? The United States, the last great hope of millions upon millions of refugees, is under siege from within. It appears that in this world, as Americans, we really are on our own.
Now what?
Is there more than one way to be prepared? Is there any way to be truly prepared? The following are just some options.
Juneteenth, the day celebrating Black freedom from slavery, is now an official holiday in Massachusetts.
Gov. Charlie Baker signed the June 19 holiday into law on Friday as part of the $1.1 billion coronavirus spending bill he inked.
Baker wrote that this “establishes Juneteenth Independence Day as an annual state holiday on June 19 in order to recognize the continued need to ensure racial freedom and equality.”
The day celebrates the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, freeing the Black residents who remained enslaved there more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
The doctor who created the cognitive test President Donald Trump took explained that some parts are “somewhat hard” and even “challenging” for most people.
Appearing on CNN’s “Out Front with Erin Burnett” on Thursday, Dr. Ziad Nasreddine told anchor Erin Burnett that a 30 out of 30 score – which Trump claimed to have attained – on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is something only “10% of normal individuals get.”
“The White House has not released these details, but the president said he aced your test and keeps talking about it like it’s an IQ exam,” Burnett told Nasreddine after showing a clip of Trump touting his latest results.
"We need to declare a moratorium on vaccines," Judy Mikovits declared, not long ago, and not for the first time. "And I mean all vaccines."
While vaccines are temporarily banned and undergoing further study, Mikovits asserted, the world will come to a realization. "We will show everyone that not only are vaccines not needed, but everyone's health will be restored," she promised her audience. "Everyone will have faith in their own natural God-given immunity."
In the last several months, Mikovits has become an indisputable star in a set of overlapping worlds. She's been both celebrated and pilloried for her claims about the dark motives of public health authorities,
The miscounting and fraudulent numbers related to the China coronavirus just keep coming. Unrelated deaths are being counted as COVID-19 related and deaths from days and weeks ago are suddenly being attributed to today’s COVID-19 mortality counts.
A CBS12 team in Florida reported:
A 60-year-old man who died from a gun shot wound to the head.
A 90-year-old man who fell and died from complications of a hip fracture.
A 77-year-old woman who died of Parkinson’s disease.
These are some of the deaths in Palm Beach County recently, and incorrectly, attributed to COVID-19 in medical examiner records.
The CBS12 News I-Team uncovered several examples in Medical Examiner reports
AT readers will be shocked to learn of the passing of Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party icon, prolific AT contributor, and conservative activist extraordinaire. Lloyd suffered an apparent heart attack early Friday, dying before medical assistance could arrive. His beloved wife Mary was at his side at the time. Lloyd worked his way out of a ghetto background under the guidance of his father, the late Rev. Lloyd E. Marcus, a career firefighter and civil rights pioneer.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., reacted to the revelation that an FBI agent involved in the "Crossfire Hurricane" Russia investigation "actively listened" for certain topics during a briefing on election interference given to the Trump campaign in August 2016, saying "they were right to do it." "I hope they do it if a Democratic candidate ever does that with any country," Swalwell said Friday on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "So, Martha, remember right before this meeting occurred, candidate Trump said, 'Russia, if you're listening, I hope you have Hillary's emails.' And what do they do? They actually did it. So think about it."
Crooked Hillary Clinton was on far-left MSNBC this week and she couldn’t help herself – she criticized and slandered both President Trump and Roger Stone. Roger Stone shared with the Gateway Pundit his thoughts about Hillary’s interview.The MSNBC interview started with the host sharing a clip of candidate Trump right after the Republican convention in 2016. Candidate Trump mentioned in jest in that if Russia has the Hillary emails, to please release them. Of course MSNBC took this clip out of context.
It's been nearly six months since the federal government asked 300 million Americans to stay home and "slow the spread" of Wuhan coronavirus. Fair enough. When the guidelines were issued in March after the disease made its way to the U.S. at the end of January, if not earlier, we didn't know what it was, what it did to the human body, who was affected most, who was most likely to die, etc.
Because of this, Americans put their livelihoods, including generations of family-owned businesses, at risk for permanent closure. They were told their sacrifices would help save the lives of millions.
The Chinese consulate in Houston has been raided by U.S. officials, shortly after it officially closed for business.The consulate, which Donald Trump forced to close on Wednesday, was reportedly a hot bed of spies and was being used to steal medical research. Beijing was told that the consulate must cease operations by Friday.On Friday afternoon, hours after the consulate officially closed, a group of men who appeared to be U.S. officials were seen forcing open a back door of the consulate. (Photos) According to a Reuters witness, consulate staff had exited the building shortly after 4pm and left in vehicles. The back door was then forced open.
Obama’s disappearing legacy
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The presidency of Barack Obama was heralded as a transformative event in American racial history. So why did it seem to do so little to advance racial equality or alter long-standing patterns of African American subjugation? We hear that, if he wins in November, Joe Biden, the former vice president, will restore the essence of the Obama-Biden administration and put America back on a path to racial justice. But over eight years, what did Obama achieve?
Long before Obama ran for president, a wide range of black voices questioned whether he was ‘black enough’ to represent African Americans. At Harvard Law, Obama’s election as the first black president of the prestigious
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidance on Friday warning about severe consequences to children if schools do not reopen for in-person class in the fall.The CDC’s updated guidance now aligns with recommendations made by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which endorsed school reopenings with limited exceptions last month. The new guidance also resolves what many had said was a conflict between the White House and the CDC on the safety of in-person learning amid the pandemic. “The best available evidence from countries that have opened schools indicates
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's spending proposals are nearing $10 trillion, even as U.S. debt continues to rise amid new coronavirus spending.
In the past month alone, Biden has proposed nearly $3.48 trillion in new taxes and spending.
Biden's new childcare and eldercare proposal released Tuesday calls for $775 billion in taxes and new government spending.
The Biden campaign's energy plan released last week will cost taxpayers $2 trillion. "Biden will make a $2 trillion accelerated investment, with a plan to deploy those resources over his first term, setting us on an irreversible course to meet the ambitious climate progress that science demands," stated the Biden campaign's website.
As everyone knows, most polls—even Fox News yesterday—have Trump trailing Biden by as much as 10 points or more, reflecting a major slump from his position before the coronavirus and the post-Floyd urban unrest started. On closer look, Trump has lost support with various segments of white voters that supported him in 2016.
That’s the finding of an NBC News poll out yesterday. Here’s a key part:
Biden is clobbering Trump 58 percent to 37 percent among whites with college degrees, more than double Clinton’s 51 percent to 42 percent lead among that group in 2016 . . . Biden has also modestly cut
As the Democratic presidential campaign moves toward its last three months and narrows down to the false claim that the president has mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic, accompanied by a deluge of misleading polls loaded in favor of the Democrats to show an impending Biden near-landslide, it is almost piquant to hear the most ancient and vociferous Trump-haters still peddling the worm-eaten chestnut of Trump’s moral odium. The historic division between those who approve and disapprove of the president is nowhere clearer than in the Sherlock Holmes–like assiduity of his media enemies excavating ludicrously trivial matters that they portray as monstrous ethical lapses that disqualify Trump from any responsible office.
You Can Take My Vacation
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We’ve been stuck at home, staring mournfully out the window for four months. We’ve read all the books on our list, watched more fantasy movies than Xi Jinping could ever dream up, and spent entire days doing every possible domestic pastime, including throwing broccoli in the backyard, boxing with annoying neighbors, and simulating a beach in the living room with a little help from some sawdust, a high-powered light bulb, and a puddle of water. Prisoners to boredom, we’ve even done sports at home, which has left the living room smelling of dead deer after turning our spinning pedals obsessively like a hamster would in a wheel.
President Trump made a rare admission that his Twitter activity at times gets him "into trouble."
During an interview that was released Friday by Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, the two discussed the powerful platform Trump has on Twitter.
The president told Portnoy there are times when he "loves" using Twitter "too much sometimes," touting the "voice" he has that bypasses what he calls "fake news."
"Do you sometimes -- because I follow you on Twitter and I know I do this... do you ever tweet out and be like -- you wake up and, 'Aw man, I wish I didn't send that one out'?" Portnoy asked.
Up until a few weeks ago, late June or early July, media constantly polled Americans’ attitudes toward the ongoing street protests over the death of George Floyd.
Those polls consistently found that Americans generally supported the protests. But if you Google “poll Americans reactions to city violence” you’ll see something interesting.
The media appears to have stopped polling about the protests/riots. Here’s a snapshot. Look at the dates — nothing recent.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing to have illegal aliens counted when apportioning congressional representation.On Friday, the ACLU dropped a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of a number of open borders lobbying groups — including New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, CASA, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, ADC Research Institute, and FIEL Houston — demanding that illegal aliens be counted in congressional apportionment.This week, Trump signed a memorandum to exclude illegal aliens from being counted when the federal government apportions congressional representation to the states —
Civil rights activist Bob Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center, ripped Democratic mayors such as Chicago's Lori Lightfoot for blaming Republicans and the status of gun control legislation, among other things, for continued violent unrest in their jurisdictions.
Woodson reacted on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to both host Tucker Carlson's commentary on Chicago and the state of the African-American community at large.
"Lori Lightfoot will tell you -- and it's not just Lori Lightfoot, by a mile -- but she cares so deeply about the poorest people in her city. Should we believe that?" Carlson asked Woodson.
Seattle's police officers will now respond to protests and rioting through “adjusted deployment” methods because of a new city law that bans them from using some crowd-control tools, the city's police chief said Friday.
The new law, which takes effect Sunday, “bans Seattle Police officers the use of less lethal tools, including pepper spray that is commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent,” police Chief Carmen Best said in a statement.
“Simply put," Best added, "the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd."
Leftists in Portland are routinely committing violence in the downtown area. This week, the rioters have set their sights on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse, which is a mistake since vandalizing federal property isn't handled by the pusillanimous officials of Portland but by folks at the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. Attorney Billy Williams announced on Friday that 18 individuals arrested during attacks on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse this past week are now facing federal charges. Court documents say protests in downtown Portland have been followed by criminal activity that includes assaults on law enforcement officers, arson, looting, destruction of property, and vandalism.
LOS ANGELES—The first guest of Michelle Obama’s new podcast will have a familiar presidential voice: Barack Obama.The former United States president is expected to appear on “The Michelle Obama Podcast” on Spotify, the Obama’s Higher Ground and streaming service announced Friday. The podcast will debut Wednesday.In the premiere episode, the former first lady and her husband will hold an intimate conversation about community, the love that powers relationships and life after living eight years in the White House.“For eight years my life was full of crazy schedules,
Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that antifa “protesters” are “largely peaceful.” And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle and Denver haven’t been looted yet, who am I to argue?Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform downtowns into a mess and create quality-of-life issues for thousands of law-abiding citizens. And the mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing “protesters” are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves. There’s little doubt that if alt-right activists
Black Trump Supporter Shot to Death in
Milwaukee Hours After Pro-Trump
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Milwaukee Hours After Pro-Trump
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Black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell was murdered on Thursday just hours after a pro-Trump interview. Trammell was gunned down shortly after giving an interview on his support for President Trump.(Tweet/Photos)Bernell Trammell, a well-known Black supporter of Donald Trump who was a community fixture known for his publishing company and long conversations on religion and politics, often delivered from street corners while holding pro Trump and other signs,