Posts on Thursday, February 4, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci may be a saintly figure within media circles, but most of us recognized his game within a month or two of the pandemic starting. Claiming expertise does not in fact make someone an expert, as Never Trumper Tom Nichols so aptly illustrates, and Fauci has quickly fallen into that category. The good doctor’s claims shift on a dime, moving from each side of an issue with no accountability for ever being wrong. The commonality in everything he does just so happens to be politics.Take this latest contradiction, which happened over just a five-day period. Did the “science” shift that much (Snip) Color me skeptical.
There has been an enormous amount of talk -- not just this week, but over the last month -- about violent extremism and the people who embrace it. Those people, we're told, are domestic terrorists who must be put down by force. The war on terror has moved stateside. Extremists are inside our country, and we must hunt them down.
We're hearing those words nonstop, not just on cable news, but from elected officials, including some Republicans. We're hearing it from the leaders of federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies. We're hearing it from the Pentagon. Just this week
COLUMBUS — Dr. Amy Acton, the former state health director who became the face of Ohio's early pandemic response, has stepped down from her nonprofit position to “carefully explore” running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, she said Thursday. Acton would be vying for a coveted open seat being vacated by Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, who cited divisive national politics in a decision not to seek reelection next year after twice comfortably winning the seat by double-digit margins.(Snip)Acton’s political experience is limited, and involves volunteering for former President Barack Obama’s 2008 Democratic primary campaign in Ohio. Obama carried Ohio twice,
Joe Biden Does the Most Joe Biden
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The Joe Biden we see in the Oval Office is remarkably similar to the Joe Biden we’ve observed over his political life. He says random crap, he’s pretty much clueless about every issue but can mouth platitudes with the best of them, and a partisanly passive Washington press corps politely applauds him and tells the yokels in the hinterlands what kind of a genius he is. Right now, the Biden regime is flailing about trying to do something about the Wuhan virus. And by something, I mean something that was not planned and set into motion by the Trump administration. The vaccine research and approval…all Trump.
Yesterday we broke the story about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not being in the Capitol building at the time that everything went down on Jan. 6.
That was something people hadn’t realized when she told her dramatic Instagram story of what happened that day in her experience. People assumed that her office was in the Capitol building. But there’s another fact that’s also not been highlighted about all this: that’s the timeline and that’s important too.
According to AOC as she describes in her video at about 40 minutes in, she was in her office (which is in the Cannon building, a building about a six-minute walk away
The Biden administration wants Americans wearing masks for the long haul—even if they’re vaccinated. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday that being inoculated against COVID-19 should not be seen as a green light for citizens to abandon social distancing or mask rules.
“What we are also trying to do is make our health and medical experts available to ensure people understand—and I’ll reiterate it here today—it’s not just a vaccine,” Ms. Psaki said. “It’s obviously an incredible medical breakthrough and we want every American to have one, but even after you’re vaccinated, social distancing [and] wearing masks
President Joe Biden said he is willing to work with the communist government of China as long as it is in America’s interests during a speech on Thursday.“We’re willing to work with Beijing when it’s in America’s interest to do so,” he said during a speech at the State Department outlining his approach to diplomacy.The president promised to confront China’s abuses on economic issues, human rights, intellectual property, and global governance, but his approach was starkly different from that of former President Donald Trump.“We’ll also take on directly the challenges posed by our prosperity, security, and democratic values by our most serious competitor, China,” Biden said.
Hackensack, N.J.—Bergen County prosecutors charged 22 people in connection with a four-month investigation into a human trafficking ring that victimized over 50 women and generated over $250,000 a month, county prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday.The "Operation Hope in Darkness" investigation looked into a human trafficking, prostitution and money laundering organization operating throughout Bergen County, in northern New Jersey and in New York. The primary alleged leaders of the ring—Birmania Rincon, Luz Rincon, Barnarodi, Dino Hernandez and Fernando Hernandez—had been operating since at least 2015, officials said.(Snip) The victims' money, however, was often used to satisfy a trafficking debt and/or wired to sex traffickers
Over the past year, there has been a pretty clear divide between liberal governors, who almost without exception imposed irrationally harsh covid lockdown measures, and conservative governors, who generally took a more nuanced and pro-freedom approach. The data are now in, courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and they tell a story that cannot be misinterpreted.
My colleague Martha Njolomole created these charts. First, job losses in December 2020. She focused on the fact that Minnesota, shut down once more by feckless Governor Tim Walz, lost nearly 50,000 jobs in December alone, trailing only Michigan and California. By contrast,
Donald Trump is washed up. A has-been. Everyone hates him, and he has no future. That’s what the press is constantly telling us.
So why are the Democrats still afraid of him?
According to the press narrative, Trump suffered a crushing electoral defeat. Democrats are firmly in charge of the White House and Congress. America is returning to normalcy, with the reassuring (if sometimes a bit confused) face of President Biden beaming over all of us like a benevolent grandpa. We’re ready to move on.
That’s the story, but the Democrats’ actions give it the lie.
In a nation returning to “normalcy,” does Congress cower behind armed troops and 12-foot fences?
Thursday, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) criticized Republicans on MSNBC for supporting President Donald Trump feeding the country the “mother’s milk of domestic terrorism” by claiming President Joe Biden’s election win and “government was illegitimate.”McCaskill said, “What we have to do for a moment is take a time-out from the QAnon lady and crazy town and get back to the big lie because what we know about domestic terrorism, the mother’s milk of domestic terrorism is believing that their government is illegitimate. The illegitimacy of government is what feeds domestic terrorism. No one did more to feed that lie than Donald Trump. That’s why he was impeached while
A gang of armed crooks caught on video running wild during a robbery at the Chanel boutique in SoHo are part of a prolific grab-and-go crew wanted for raiding up to 20 other high-end stores, officials said Thursday. The boisterous band caught on surveillance and cell phone video in the Spring St. Chanel boutique Tuesday afternoon got away with 32 handbags and 12 wallets. One of them flashed the butt of a pistol, scaring off an armed security guard, officials said.(Snip)“It’s part of a larger emerging pattern of behavior we’ve seen since the riots in the beginning of the summer,”
Democrats, and 11 Republicans, voted Thursday to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from both her committee assignments for espousing QAnon conspiracies before being elected to Congress – including supporting calls online for Nancy Pelosi's execution.The 230-199 vote created the simple majority needed for Greene to get booted from her posts on the Education and Labor Committee and Budget Committee.Highlighting the furthering divide between the parties and pressure to become more party-aligned, not one Democrat crossed the line to vote in opposition of the majority of their party.On the Republicans side, however, 11 felt Greene's comments were too charged not to be addressed. Among those who voted to remove Greene
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reacted Thursday to President Biden's declaration that "America is back" by asking if the commander-in-chief meant "back to when ISIS controlled a caliphate in Syria that was the size of Britain."
"I hope not. President Trump and our team took that down," Pompeo told "Fox News Primetime" host Trey Gowdy.
March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg tweeted on Thursday that he and software developer William LeGate are launching a pillow company to compete against MyPillow, which is led by Trump supporter CEO Mike Lindell.(snip) Hogg wrote that he and LeGate hope to "sell $1 million of product within our first year" and to launch in about six months.
WASHINGTON — A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped her party into, nearly all Republicans voted against the Democratic move but none defended her lengthy history of outrageous social media posts.Yet in a riveting moment, the freshman Republican from a deep-red corner of Georgia took to the House floor on her own behalf. She offered a mixture of backpedaling and finger-pointing as she wore a dark mask emblazoned with the words “FREE SPEECH.”
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has announced plans to release a three-hour film called 'Absolute Proof', falsely claiming a Chinese cyberattack 'flipped' the election.
The Donald Trump supporter said the movie will be out Friday on cable TV after describing the Republican's presidential defeat as a 'communist coup'.
Lindell, 59, who founded the bedding company, told The Revival Channel YouTube: 'Coming Friday, I have put together this documentary, it’s three hours long, that shows every, 100%, the theft by China and these other countries, this cyberattack on our country here, that took, that flipped votes.'
Yesterday it was revealed that Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Biden, will release a memoir in April called “Beautiful Things.” But New York Post columnist Kyle Smith got an exclusive first look, thanks to a draft he found on a laptop Computer abandoned in the Champagne room at Ba-Da-Bing’s on Route 1 outside Wilmington, Del. Here, he shares with us an exclusive excerpt from Chapter 1:Some of you are wondering why I called this memoir “Beautiful Things” instead of, say, “Ukrainian Business for Dummies,” or “Not the Good Son — the Other One.” Some joker even told me I should have called it
Florida and North Dakota take the lead in dealing with Joe Biden’s unconstitutional executive orders and Big Tech’s anti-free speech censorship. The rest of the states who cherish our Constitution should follow.The Biden administration, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Pharma, the DOJ, the FBI and the courts joined forces to steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Now they continue their illegal and unconstitutional actions with unconstitutional executive orders and continued censorship of Americans on social media. Florida and North Dakota have come up with excellent ideas in how to deal with these unconstitutional orders and Big Tech censorship.
Joe Biden has a Hunter Biden problem. A pretty big one.
Big Tech suppressed the Hunter Biden story and a lot of social media conservatives drift from one trend to another. There's still an FBI investigation of Hunter Biden, but even if his dad weren't in the White House, the odds of the feds doing anything other than what they did with the investigation of Bernie Sander's wife or Hillary Clinton's emails is slim to none. But even with the media running cover for Hunter Biden, there's a whole range of awkward material about him out there.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to strip Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.In a 230-199 vote, the House voted to remove Greene from the House Education and Budget committees.Greene has continued to claim that Trump won the Nov. 3 presidential election and has been linked to a number of conspiracy theories, including QAnon related conspiracies. Greene gave a speech on the House floor Thursday after a Wednesday night meeting with House Republicans where she apologized for promoting conspiracy theories and reportedly was met with applause by many in the room.
Allowing people who have had both doses of the coronavirus vaccine to meet up with each other without social distancing has been ruled out.
During the government's daily coronavirus briefing, the prime minister and England's chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said it remained too risky for such a prospect.A member of the public asked why people who have had both jabs couldn't socialise "exclusively" with one another, while Sky's Sam Coates questioned if it was time to apply "common sense" to elderly people who have been fully vaccinated.(Snip)But Professor Whitty said the scientific community was still "not absolutely confident about exactly how much" the vaccines reduced transmission.
President Joe Biden on Thursday told Russia that the United States would no longer be “rolling over” in the face of aggressive action by Moscow, declaring a new, tough approach by Washington.
Visiting the State Department, Biden also promised to repair alliances and engage with the world again. “American leadership” must meet rising authoritarianism and unite with partners to combat global challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic or climate change, he said.
President Joe Biden on Thursday told Russia that the United States would no longer be “rolling over” in the face of aggressive action by Moscow, declaring a new, tough approach by Washington.
Visiting the State Department, Biden also promised to repair alliances and engage with the world again. “American leadership” must meet rising authoritarianism and unite with partners to combat global challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic or climate change, he said.
President Trump went through four years of hell to save the country from the insane policies of the Obama Administration. He lost a billion dollars doing it.President Trump offered up his annual salary and gave it to charities. In spite of this, how many Trump supporters were told that President Trump was only pushing policies to help his businesses.Never was the media transparent about all President Trump gave up to save the country. In addition, President Trump was spied on by members and holdovers of the Obama Administration. He was lied to.
Gun control activist David Hogg said Thursday morning that he plans to launch a “progressive” pillow company to compete against MyPillow owner Mike Lindell. “[William LeGate] and I can and will run a better business and make a better product all with more happy staff than Mike the pillow guy while creating US based Union jobs and helping people,” tweeted Hogg. “This pillow fight is just getting started.” (Tweet) In a later tweet thread, Hogg explained three tenants of his prospective pillow enterprise:
Biden brings back kids in cages
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How's this for buried news?
The Biden administration, through executive order, is scrapping President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy for illegal border crossers claiming asylum. Which means, catch-and-release, but detention centers, for presumably vulnerable "unaccompanied minors." That would likely include 14-year-old gang bangers, even as the media would present only toddlers.
According to CNN, (Hat tip: The National Pulse):
The Biden administration is opening an overflow facility for unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border, the federal agency tasked with the children’s care told CNN in a statement.
An interesting compare-&-contrast arises amid reports out today of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, getting a book deal to publish his memoir “Beautiful Things”. The controversial life of Hunter Biden includes abusive relationships, sex scandals, drug use and retaining a position of affluence by trading on his father’s position in government. Everything surrounding Hunter Biden is not only sketchy, it is the life of a very troubled, manipulative, opportunistic and creepy person… e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
President Biden on Thursday told State Department employees he was “shot at” overseas — reviving a claim that previously stirred controversy.“You have great personal courage. I’ve been with some of you when we’ve been shot at,” Biden told a group of diplomatic aides in Washington.Biden did not offer a detailed description of being shot at. But he was forced to walk back a similar claim in 2007 as veterans warned him not to exaggerate.Biden said during a CNN-hosted Democratic presidential debate in 2007 that he was “shot at” inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone.
According to Fox Business Parler CEO John Matze has been removed by the small group of owners of Parler. Rebekah Mercer (financial aspects) and Dan Bongino (public face) are pushing back against the reasoning that Matze is sharing with the public.(Snip) Both elements within the ownership group have issues.
It was not surprising to see the trouble they encountered with re-platforming the social media network.(Snip)First, Matze should have been fired -and the ownership group eviscerated- for allowing the vulnerability of their host server system to exist on Amazon. That was perhaps the stupidest decision of a “conservative” platform ever.
(Snip) from Matze statements he wanted a heavily moderated and highly
After spending 30 years in Washington, there isn’t much Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) can take credit for, with the exception of becoming one of her party’s best gaslighters.Because if you can’t really accomplish anything legislatively as a lawmaker, then find something else to be good at — right?“Mad Maxine” was at it again Wednesday during an appearance with one of cable news’ biggest racists, MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “where she made the bold claim that Trump should be charged with premeditated murder,” PJ Media reported, adding: “Waters even launched a new conspiracy theory by alleging, without evidence, that Trump had ‘advance planning about the invasion’
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump sent a hilarious letter to the Screen Actor’s Guild after they threatened to remove him from their membership in response to the events that took place at the United States Capitol on January 6th.Trump sent a hilarious letter to the labor union, telling them that he couldn’t care less about their actions against him and that he no longer wished to be associated with the union. Read the full letter from former President Trump below: I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!
Former President Donald Trump turned down an offer from Democrats to testify at his upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate, blasting the offer as a “public relations stunt.”Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the lead impeachment manager for the House, sent Trump the offer via letter on Thursday. Trump attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen rejected the request hours later.“We are in receipt of your latest public relations stunt. As you certainly know, there is no such thing as a negative inference in this unconstitutional proceeding,” the attorneys wrote.
House Impeachment Brief Against Trump
Threatens Freedom of Speech of All
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Threatens Freedom of Speech of All
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Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that the House impeachment brief against former President Donald Trump, which seeks to undermine Trump’s First Amendment-based argument in his defense, amounts to a dangerous broadside against the freedom of speech of all Americans.
(Snip) Dershowitz made a case against a key argument contained in the brief (pdf), namely that “the First Amendment does not apply at all to impeachment proceedings,” signals Congressional willingness to take aim at freedom of speech more broadly.
“The brief filed by the House managers advocating the conviction and disqualification of citizen Donald Trump contains a frontal attack on freedom of speech for all Americans,”
Colorado Springs, Colo. — Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colorado) is calling for the Biden administration to reconsider U.S. Space Command’s impending move away from Colorado Springs and to keep the Bureau of Land Management headquartered in Grand Junction. Polis, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers and a bipartisan group of state lawmakers wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the decision to relocate U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., could “undermine our country’s ability to respond to national security threats in space” if allowed to continue without review. In former President Donald Trump’s waning days in office,
The world’s oldest profession just got some new rules in Amsterdam. The liberal Dutch city’s notorious red-light district will be moved to the outskirts of town in an effort to help legal sex workers avoid ridicule from tourists, lawmakers said in a report Thursday. Brothel windows will be shuttered in the bustling De Wallen neighborhood and an “erotic centre” will be set up in a yet-to-be-determined area, according to the UK Guardian.(Snip) Other elected officials said the relocation would help clean up the city’s image on a global stage. “We have to intervene firmly,” said Dennis Boutkan,
Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the Capitol riot in January.
In a letter dated Thursday and addressed to SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, Trump said he was resigning from the union that he had been a member of since 1989.
Trump wrote he did not want to be associated with the union any longer, adding his contention that it had “done nothing” for him.
A Newsmax anchor who stormed off during an interview with Mike Lindell made a grovelling apology to the MyPillow boss last night.
Bob Sellers expressed profuse regret at how Tuesday night's interview with Lindell had descended into a shouting match over voter fraud.
The anchor had desperately asked his producers to cut Lindell off as the CEO barked about having '100 percent proof' of manipulation by the Dominion Voting machines.
Exasperated and red-faced Sellers got out of his chair and walked off set, leaving his co-host Heather Childers to carry on without him.
A USA Today columnist has come under fire for claiming that Tom Brady's 'white privilege' has protected him against criticism for his support of Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, Nancy Armour took aim at the quarterback in her column, saying 'Tom Brady was happy to talk politics until he wasn’t.'
She points out Brady's previous support of Trump, which famously included a 'Make America Great Hat' appearing in his New England Patriots locker back in September 2015.
Brady also referred to Trump as a friend and said 'it would be great' if he were to win the 2016 election, which he did.
In 2018, Mark Robinson stood up before the city council in Greensboro, North Carolina, and gave an impassioned defense of the Second Amendment. That video went viral and led to him entering politics. Last year, Robinson became North Carolina’s Republican Lieutenant Governor. This year, when a local paper published a cartoon calling the entire North Carolina Republican party a KKK entity, Robinson (who is black) ferociously attacked the newspaper for its dishonesty and ignorance. He needs to give master classes in handling the media.
To get a sense of the man, I recommend that you take the four minutes to watch his defense of the Second Amendment
Acronyms now are racist
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Acronyms are racist, too. Yes, acronyms.
Sam Bass, the San Francisco Unified School District Arts Department Director, says the use of acronyms furthers white supremacy. Which is why the organization is changing its name from the acronym “VAPA,” for “Visual and Performing Arts,” to the blander “SFUSD Arts Department.”
“We are prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work,” Bass said. “It is a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are.” Places where visual and performing arts occur, perhaps?
At first glance, the story of Rebekah Jones—a brave “COVID-19 scientist” standing up to a corrupt right-wing machine—looks like a bombshell. When the Florida Department of Health (DoH) fired her last May, Jones claimed she had been terminated for refusing to falsify case numbers to support Governor Ron DeSantis’ plans to reopen the economy. Overnight, she became a heroine. She launched her own COVID-19 dashboard, raised half a million dollars, and gathered a Twitter army of 378,000.
I’ve made a minor hobby of looking skeptically at immunizations since my case report on atypical measles was published as the centerpiece article in JAMA 45 years ago. That case illustrated at least one unpublicized problem from immunizations.
It seems that the original measles vaccine, “a killed measles vaccine” was given to preschool kids beginning in 1962-63 and available until 1968. It did prevent measles for about six years. Thereafter, when these kids were exposed to measles they sometimes developed an inverted and much more serious illness. My case was the first that occurred in a young adult 14 years after immunization.
Make the "United States" plural again. Is that so much to ask? Up until the Civil War, that was the customary grammatical construction. "The United States of America are committed to..." "The United States of America have declared war upon..." "The United States of America stand together..."
Ah, there's the rub. These United States of ours do not really stand together anymore on anything, and only the linguistic shrewdness of treating the "United States" as a singular entity provides the fictitious veneer of national unity. In a world filled with fake news, fake markets, and fake elections, ignoring proper grammatical rules
The risk of catching coronavirus from frequently touched surfaces such as ATMs, petrol pumps and pedestrian crossings is low, according to researchers.
Scientists swabbed hundreds of supermarket door handles, post boxes and bin lids between April and June last year, during the first wave. But they only detected Covid 29 times — or eight per cent of samples.
And even when the virus was identified it was in amounts so small the researchers said the risk of infection was 'low' — estimated to be as little as one in 2,000.(Snip)This study adds to mounting evidence that aerosol droplets are the main way the virus jumps between people.
China Is Collecting Americans’ DNA,
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Posing Major Security Risks: US
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The Chinese regime has for years been collecting large amounts of American health care data, including sensitive genetic information—which pose serious privacy and national security risks, a top U.S. counterintelligence agency has warned.
Alongside illegal means such as cyber hacking, Beijing has used investments in American biotech companies and partnerships with hospitals and universities to gain access to U.S. healthcare and genetic data, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) said in a fact sheet (pdf) released on Feb. 1.
Vast amounts of genomic information (a person’s entire genetic sequence) can fuel developments in the cutting-edge field of precision medicine (or personalized medicine), allowing China to overtake the United States to become
Republican lawmakers voted 145 to 61 on Wednesday in a secret ballot to keep the Trump-hater in leadership.They really, really hate their voters.Liz Cheney spoke to reporters after the vote and took a swipe at her Republican detractors.Cheney voted to impeach Trump and gave Democrats their talking points during their sham impeachment hearing. Republican voters LOVE Trump and are disgusted with Liz Cheney’s actions. Liz Cheney: We really had a terrific vote tonight,
The State Department said it was “deeply disturbed” by a report that claims Muslim women being held in Chinese re-education camps detaining millions of Uighurs are being systematically raped, sexually abused and tortured.
“These atrocities shock the conscience and must be met with serious consequences,” a state department spokeswoman told Reuters on Wednesday.(Snip) An estimated three million Uighurs are being held in “re-education” camps, where they are forced to undergo sterilizations and forced labor. The Trump administration took a hard-line approach to China’s treatment of the Uighurs, banning all cotton and tomato products made in the Xinjiang region because of
Biden readies showdown on guns
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In his first two weeks, President Biden hasn’t said much about guns or his goal of banning some, especially the nation’s most popular firearm, the AR-15.
But that’s because he’s leaving it to two key nominees to take the fight to the industry, Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland and surgeon general choice Dr. Vivek Murthy, both gun control advocates.
(Snip) Gun control fans, however, are eager for Murthy, founder of Doctors for America and a former surgeon general, to use his potential platform to call for gun control and push for the creation of a “national bureau” for gun safety that would boost taxes on guns and ammo,
Senate Republicans are set to force Democrats to cast votes on a variety of potentially uncomfortable topics in the coming days, taking advantage of the rules of the budget reconciliation process Democrats are using to advance President Biden's coronavirus stimulus plan while getting around a filibuster.
Debate on the budget resolution, which started Wednesday, will continue in the Senate on Thursday. After that time expires -- Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., predicted that will happen shortly after lunch -- a process called a vote-a-rama begins.
During that time, any senator is entitled to file an amendment to the resolution, which could result in dozens of votes
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill earlier this month that would enact some of the strictest gun regulations in the history of the country and give the federal government sweeping power to decide who can own a firearm.
The Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act, named after a Pakistani exchange student who was murdered in Texas in 2018, would "provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms" and "prohibit the possession of certain ammunition."
Parler CEO John Matze announced late Wednesday that he has been terminated as the company’s CEO.
Matze said that the Parler board on Jan. 29 decided to terminate his position, adding that he did not participate in the decision.
(Snip) “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement.
“Over the past few months, I’ve met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed. For example, I advocated for more product stability and what I
Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego warned against the "weaponization of Eucharist" as a way to get Catholic elected officials, President Joe Biden among them, to adhere to the church's stance on abortion.
"I do not see how depriving the president or other political leaders of Eucharist based on their public policy stance can be interpreted in our society as anything other than the weaponization of Eucharist and an effort not to convince people by argument and by dialogue and by reason, but, rather, to pummel them into submission on the issue," Bishop McElroy said.
Sen. Chuck Schumer has some unlikely sidekicks when it comes to student loan forgiveness. The Senate Majority Leader will be joined Thursday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and several of the most progressive Democratic lawmakers in calling for the cancellation of $50,000 in student debt. Newly minted Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), who represents Westchester, will appear to support the push along with members of the so-called Squad of progressive women lawmakers.(Snip) They believe Biden has the authority to cancel student debt with a stroke of his pen. Biden supports a much more limited plan to scrap $10,000 in debt
Cardinal Blase Cupich had a private meeting with Pope Francis in Rome last week, and there is speculation the two discussed the possibility of the archbishop of Chicago being appointed to a high-profile job at the Vatican.
Pope Francis is “seriously considering making a surprise appointment” of a new prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and there is speculation that Cupich could be a possible candidate, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported Wednesday.
Is she right there whenever Biden faces the cameras in case he keels over? Or is this some attempt to add presidential “gravitas” to a problematic choice for the ticket, so lacking in appeal that she dropped out of the presidential field before the Iowa caucuses? Or, are we being prepared for Harris to assume the presidency sooner than anyone expected? Whatever the motives, Joe Biden’s handlers seem to have decided that they need to double-team presidential public events when the cameras start rolling. (snip)But I wonder if it really adds luster to Harris to show up, masked, with nothing better to do than just stand there? CORRECTION*
Catholic dioceses accept at least
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When the coronavirus forced churches to close their doors and give up Sunday collections, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte turned to the federal government’s signature small business relief program for more than $8 million. The diocese’s headquarters, churches and schools landed the help even though they had roughly $100 million of their own cash and short-term investments available last spring, financial records show.(Snip) As the pandemic began to unfold, scores of Catholic dioceses across the U.S. received aid through the Paycheck Protection Program while sitting on well over $10 billion in cash, short-term investments or other available funds,
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden and an ongoing target for conservatives, has a memoir coming out April 6. The book is called 'Beautiful Things' and will center on the younger Biden's well-publicized struggles with substance abuse, according to Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.(Snip) 'Beautiful Things' was circulated among several authors and includes advance praise from Stephen King, Dave Eggers and Anne Lamott. 'In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves again that anybody—even the son of a United States President—can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley,' King writes in his blurb.
Following a memo leaked to Fox News in which Parler CEO John Matze announced to employees that he'd been terminated by the Board of Directors, Dan Bongino broadcast a livestream to "correct the record," saying "the story you're hearing, unfortunately, is not correct." Bongino, who has an ownership stake in Parler, said "I have no personal gripe against John, the CEO at all. I want to be crystal clear, but John decided to make this public, not us. We decided we were handling it like gentlemen and John decided to… put out this memo that was made public via press reports."
A longtime driver for a Queens prostitution ring who was busted by the FBI Wednesday had nearly 400 clients listed on his phone—all residents of one upstate New York village with a population of just 2,400, federal prosecutors said. Teodoro Rojas Lopez had 383 contacts for Johns living in Brewster, located in Putnam County about 50 miles northeast of New York City, according to a criminal complaint. Brooklyn federal prosecutors said Rojas Lopez was a driver and coordinator for a large-scale ring operating out of Queens that supplied Mexican and Latin American women mostly to clients in Brewster, which has a large Hispanic population.
The war on Jordan Peterson
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Leftist hatred for the Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson is really something to behold. He stands as an example of what happens to someone who strays from the crazy line of thinking by modern campus bigots.
Mr. Peterson is the canary in the toxic coal mine of political correctness and petty thought police.
Let’s start with the professor’s crime.Simply put, Mr. Peterson does not share the monolithic, prevailing liberal orthodoxy on university campuses dictating that Western White males are the world’s evil oppressors and anyone who does not belong to that evil race is a victim trapped in circumstances beyond his or her control.
Rising sea levels on both coasts threaten key U.S. military installations. Famines, droughts and wildfires abroad disrupt volatile societies and could spark wars that draw in U.S. forces and put American lives in danger. In the Arctic, melting sea ice could open a theater for conflict between the U.S. and Russia, and military planners say the targeting of an enemy’s energy or water supply will be an increasingly effective battle tactic. Across the armed forces, climate change and its ripple effects are taking center stage in the Biden administration’s Pentagon.(Snip) Some critics charge that the military could sacrifice effectiveness in the name of
Country artist Morgan Wallen has been disqualified from performing at or receiving any recognition during the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards, the organization announced Wednesday, as the star continues to face backlash for a viral video showing him hurling a racial slur in front of friends. The first round of voting for the awards show, which is slated to be broadcast April 18, has already closed. Wallen’s name will be removed from the contest’s second round of voting, which is set to open Feb. 10, according to the ACM.(Snip) The 27-year-old won the CMA award for “Best New Artist” last year.
Greta Thunberg accidentally shared a message showing she was getting told what to write on Twitter about the ongoing violent farmers’ revolt in India—leading Thursday to her being probed for criminal conspiracy by police there, according to reports. The 18-year-old left-wing eco-activist shared—and then quickly deleted—a message that detailed a list of “suggested posts” about the ongoing protests, according to the posts that were saved by Breaking 911. The list gave a series of tips on what to post, asking her to also repost and tag other celebrities tweeting about it, including pop star Rihanna.
One of comedian George Carlin’s more notable quotes, pointing out a reality of American life is, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” His words are a simple commentary on the ruling class, the elites, the cabal, the establishment, or the deep state, whatever you prefer to call the Big Club. Donald Trump is the first president since Ronald Reagan to point this out. Neither men were members of the Big Club. Reagan was a former actor (the bit about serving as a two-term governor of California is conveniently omitted from his biography, instead characterizing him only as a simple thespian)
On January 28, while attempting to take a photo of a suspicious vehicle cruising in front of his San Francisco home, 76-year-old private investigator Jack Palladino was grabbed by one of the two men in the car and dragged forty feet before falling over backward and lethally striking his head.
Not since the Zebra killings of the 1970s has one murder caused San Francisco's leftist worthies so much consternation. If you do not know of the Zebra killers, there is a reason why. The killers were black. All 21 of their victims, 14 fatal, were white or Asian.
Well, that didn't take long. The Harris/Trotsky administration’s opening salvo of executive orders stopping the Keystone Pipeline, allowing Chinese access to the US power grid, destroying women’s sports, and declaring diabetic Americans as collateral damage is only a precursor to the anti-terrorism and gun control laws targeting some seventy-four million voters.
So, what are you and your family’s first steps as this barbed wire curtain swiftly envelops our formerly constitutional Republic? (We do not have a constitutional Republic while there are still thousands military troops occupying our nation’s capital....)
America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) recently published a white paper that is the first objective look at the experimental vaccines that are now being enthusiastically offered to the public on an ever-increasing scale. (Snip)
A few key highlights from the paper: First, all three vaccine candidates -- from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Moderna -- are still experimental and investigational. Pfizer, in its own executive summary to the FDA on December 10, 2020 calls it “...an investigational Covid-19 vaccine.”
The experimental vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna utilize mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) which instructs the body’s cells on manufacturing proteins. It is technology that has not “ever been approved for
After a group of 10 Senate Republicans duly trudged to the White House on Monday to show their “bipartisanship” on yet another COVID-19 stimulus bill, President Joe Biden did the predictable: He looked at their outreached hand of political comity and spat on it. Just as well, since the only thing the Democrats’ plan will “stimulate” will be more debt.
Biden and his party were never really interested in bipartisanship at all, despite their claims to the contrary. The whole point of this choreographed Kabuki political theater was to humiliate the Republicans, who foolishly took Biden and the Democrats at
Ambitious.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is no longer confining itself to listing bar signs and brands of oil as hate groups (not to mention, yours truly), it's going full coup.
In its Year in Hate, the SPLC demands that, "Congress should discipline, censure, or expel all of the 147 Senators and Representatives who supported the insurrection and baseless “Stop the Steal” lies by voting against Electoral College certification of President Biden’s victory."
That's about 56% of the Republican members of the House and Senate.
Obviously, Congressional Black Caucus members who opposed certifying President Bush's win are just fine.
When I look at the last four years and how our country seemed to get more divided than any time since the Civil War, it's easy to conclude that President Trump is the reason it occurred. From the moment he declared war on the corruption in D.C., he became a target of all those entrenched power brokers who have been able to hide their venal activities from an unsuspecting public. Trump became the loudest whistleblower in history when he talked about draining the swamp that had been operating like an organized crime family for generations. In order for a Mafia-like mob to operate effectively
The U.S. military on Wednesday acknowledged it was unsure about how to address white nationalism and other extremism in its ranks, and announced plans for military-wide stand-downs pausing regular activity at some point in the next 60 days to tackle the issue.The decision to a hold a stand-down was made by Lloyd Austin, who made history by becoming the military's first Black defense secretary after a long career rising in the ranks of the Army. In his confirmation hearing, Austin underscored the need to rid the military of 'racists and extremists'.
Noxious Nancy’s cynical timing
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Nancy Pelosi took hypocrisy to new heights during the memorial for the police officer who died after the Capitol riots — and that’s saying something, for her. The newfound faux reverence for law enforcement from the House speaker and her “defund the police” comrades after cheering on and inciting violence against cops most of last year is grotesque. Despite Pelosi’s nauseating insincerity as she presided over the two-day commemoration of Brian Sicknick, the dignity and grace of his grieving parents and police colleagues mercifully elevated the honors high above tawdry political opportunism.