Posts on Thursday, February 18, 2021
Kamala Harris' stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has appeared in her first designer fashion show, just three weeks after it was announced that she had signed with IMG Models. The 21-year-old—who is the daughter of Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, and his first wife, Kerstin—had turned the heads of fashion fans at President Joe Biden's inauguration on on January 20, where she wore an embellished Miu Miu coat. (Snip) 'It's not really about shape, size or gender any more,' said Ivan Bart, the president of IMG Models. 'Ella communicates this moment in time. There's a cheekiness and a joy she exudes.'
Mayor de Blasio’s decision to paint “Black Lives Matter” on public streets doesn’t mean a pro-Donald Trump group can post its own message on the pavement, a judge ruled Thursday. Manhattan Federal Judge Lorna Schofield ruled that “Black Lives Matter” painted on Fifth Ave. outside Trump Tower and other streets over the summer constituted speech by government—and that the city’s decision to paint those words did not give others the right to paint messages of their own. That meant that the Virginia-based Women for America First did not have the right to paint: “Engaging, Inspiring and Empowering Women to Make a Difference!”
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden repeatedly called for so many early a.m. “lids” that The Post ran a “Where’s Joe” front page, wondering when the “hidin’” Biden would come out. We may need to run it again, because President Biden is still calling them: On Thursday, he postponed a trip to Michigan, where he was to tour a Pfizer vaccine-making plant, then called an 8 a.m. lid — notifying the press that he won’t be seen in public for the rest of the day. Why? Because DC is getting snow. Seriously.Notably, Vice President Kamala Harris still went ahead with her schedule.
If the meteoric rise of the Lincoln Project—a collection of longtime Republican operatives who branded themselves Never-Trumpers—seemed to happen overnight, the organization’s downfall has been just as dramatic. In the course of a week, damning report after damning report has come out about the group: that cofounder John Weaver allegedly sexually harassed more than 20 young men (allegations he acknowledged in an apology); that it funneled more than $50 million of the roughly $90 million it raised into firms with ties to its members; that senior members of the independent legal team hired by the Lincoln Project to perform a “comprehensive review” of its “operations and culture” are in fact
With Donald Trump out of office and de-platformed, you’d think mainstream media gatekeepers would be happy. You’d think wrong.
Though the media-Big Tech regime is doing its best to silence opponents and seize control of the high ground, the news from within is grim. They aren’t happy with how things are going.
That’s because they know they’re losing. Some are losing audiences and revenues. But more important, they’re losing control of the narrative.
And since control of the narrative, and the power and self-importance that accompany that control, is the most important thing in their lives, they can’t be happy.
What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot. As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode. Any time force or violence is introduced into what ought to be the peaceful resolution of political conflicts, it should be lamented and condemned.
But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media. Condemning that riot does not allow, let alone require, echoing false claims in order to render the event more menacing and serious than it actually was.
New York City health officials issued new guidance Thursday to prevent the spread of coronavirus—and its growing number of variants—urging people to wear two masks now, instead of just one. The new recommendations came from both Mayor de Blasio and city Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi amid growing concerns over more contagious coronavirus mutations. “Of all the things that we’ve learned in this crisis, maybe the most profound is the power of a mask,” de Blasio said at his Thursday morning press briefing.(Snip) The city’s recommendation comes several days after the Centers for Disease and Control issued similar guidelines
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who is the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, said that attempts to purge the party of former President Donald Trump will cost the GOP all elections.
“A Republican Party that seeks to erase President Trump and fails to understand his appeal to working-class voters is destined to lose elections in 2022, 2024, and beyond,” tweeted Banks, the chair of the House Republican Study Committee.
“As a conservative leader in the GOP I’m determined to make sure that won’t happen.”
Former President Donald appeared on Newsmax TV on Wednesday night to discuss the passing of his friend and conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh.After speaking at length about Limbaugh and how much admiration he had for the conservative icon, Trump turned his attention to his ban from Twitter last month.
“They wanted me very much on Parler, you know they had a phony report that the man who was in there didn’t, I mean just the opposite, they really wanted me on Parler,” Trump said.Trump said, “If you look at what’s going on with Twitter, I understand it’s become very boring, and millions of people are leaving,
The “Flynn Effect” is the phenomena identified by intelligence researcher James Flynn. He found that average intelligence quotients, or IQ’s, as measured by standardized tests were steadily increasing through the course of the 20th century.
That sounds quite natural because, after all, each generation gets better nurturing. They get better health, improved medical care, more nutritious food and greater schooling.
But IQ is supposed to be mainly about nature, not nurture. Nurturing can certainly affect a person’s well-being, but in theory it doesn’t change a person’s IQ much (except of course when the nurturing is so bad that it produces negative neurological effects).
PUEBLO, Colo. — A wind turbine company based in Denmark has laid off 450 workers from its manufacturing plants in Colorado. The Pueblo Chieftain reported Wednesday that Vestas Wind Systems A/S laid off 120 workers at its Pueblo tower-manufacturing plant, where it employed more than 800 workers at its peak. The company also said it laid off 50 workers at its blade factory in Windsor and closed a separate blade factory in Brighton where 280 people worked. Vestas Director of Communications Chante Condit-Pottol said the company made the move to consolidate its workforce in Colorado as a result of lower
After another failed witch hunt from bloodthirsty Democrats in Washington D.C., President Trump took a few minutes after golfing to surprise a young couple who were taking engagement pictures at Mar-A-Lago.Brian Schottenstein posted the video to his Twitter account on Monday, but it’s starting to hit the Twitter rounds today.Schottenstein and his fiancé were smiling for the camera when he notices someone familiar off to the side.“Hey!,” he said as he glances at the President.“Hi!,” the future bride exclaims when she realizes who it was.“That’s a good looking couple! Everything good?,” Trump says to them.
The Biden administration says it's ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal. The U.S. will accept an invitation to join talks and discuss 'a diplomatic way forward' with Iran, the State Department said. The State Department said the U.S. would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement.(:Listen) Such an invitation has not yet been issued but one is expected shortly, following discussions earlier Thursday between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British, French and German counterparts.
The Biden administration tweaked its position on an upcoming Supreme Court appeal dealing with Arizona’s electoral integrity laws, disavowing the previous administration’s interpretation of anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Although the Biden administration won’t be presenting oral arguments in the case or updating a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Trump administration, it signaled to the justices and the public that it’s leaving the door open to adopting a more aggressive interpretation of the statute in the future.
NASA's done it again. The agency's Perseverance rover, a 1-ton mobile science laboratory, slowly lowered to the surface of an ancient lakebed on Mars on Thursday afternoon. Hoots and hollers rang throughout NASA's Mission Control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at the moment of touchdown, but this wasn't like past Mars landings. Jubilant scientists and engineers jumped from chairs, but social distancing requirements prevented them from their usual embrace.That's what landing a rover on Mars during a global pandemic looks like. "What a credit to the team,"
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is authorized to receive taxpayer funding for animal research until January 2024, the National Institute of Health told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The WIV is at the center of widespread speculation that COVID-19 could have entered the human population in China due to an accidental lab leak. Researchers at the lab were studying bat-based coronaviruses prior to the outbreak, a project partially backed by $600,000 in U.S. taxpayer funds routed to the lab through the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance.
The president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, was the sole U.S. member of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegation that investigated the origins of the
Two fugitives from Rochester were arrested in Mexico and have been charged with an arson indictment.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said 34-year-old Jose Angel Felan, Jr., and 22-year-old Mena Dhaya Yousif were detained by Mexican authorities for immigration violations on Monday. (snip) The indictment alleges that Felan maliciously damaged and destroyed the Goodwill retail store, Gordon Parks High School and 7 Mile Sportswear's store, all located on University Avenue in St. Paul, through arson on May 28. Yousif is then accused of helping Felan avoid law enforcement.
NASA kicked off a new era of Mars exploration Thursday with the successful landing of Perseverance, a car-size robotic explorer that will search for traces of ancient life on the planet and collect what could be the first rocky samples from Mars that are sent back to Earth. NASA kicked off a new era of Mars exploration Thursday with the successful landing of Perseverance, a car-size robotic explorer that will search for traces of ancient life on the planet and collect what could be the first rocky samples from Mars that are sent back to Earth.
Sen. Ted Cruz acknowledged Thursday that he flew to Mexico with his family even as his state reels from a historic storm that has left hundreds of thousands of people without power and safe drinking water, saying he made the trip to "be a good dad." The Republican lawmaker faced backlash after initial reports emerged on social media that he had jetsetted to Cancun despite the widespread crisis in Texas, but he defended himself in a statement Thursday afternoon saying it was a trip for his two daughters, Caroline and Catherine, and their friends.
Last week, the Biden administration promised gun control groups that it will soon roll out a massive push for limits on firearm purchases and other measures. President Biden reiterated that promise on Sunday. And the television networks aren’t waiting to lay the groundwork for this effort.
CBS is in a full-court press for gun control on its evening entertainment television shows. The bad guys are always white supremacists who use machine guns — supposedly AR-15s — to commit mass public shootings. A father’s desire to protect his family only leads to tragedy when his daughter...
Washington—University of California faculty delighted at the death of conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh hours after his passing Wednesday, calling him a “one-man hate industry” in an email pitching themselves as “Rush Limbaugh experts” for media interviews. Three professors from the University of California, Riverside appeared to celebrate Limbaugh’s death after he lost his battle with lung cancer at age 70, claiming that “America is objectively a better place without Rush in it.” “For decades, Rush Limbaugh made millions trafficking in racism, sexism, and xenophobia,” creative writing professor and former CNN employee Reza Aslan said in the email distributed by the university’s PR department
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the organization that operates the state’s power grid, alleging “mishandling” amid the brutal cold snap that has left millions of Texans shivering and in the dark.
“ERCOT & other energy cos have slipped & fallen on their faces & it’s not the ice’s fault. They have left 3+ million homes w/o power for days, including my own,” Paxton wrote in a tweet late Wednesday.
“What do they do in response? Jack up prices, go silent, make excuses, & play the blame game. It’s unacceptable!” he added.
Paxton also commended officials, including Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott,
Texas Senator Ted Cruz sparked a flurry of memes on Thursday after being caught flying to Cancun for a Mexican vacation as his state is suffering through one of the worst winter storms and power outages in years.
The storm has caused a major energy crisis, after as many as 4.4million Texans were left without power thanks to a bungled response from its energy distributor. As of Thursday afternoon, 500,000 are stil without power as stores run out of food.(Snip) Another meme from the Lincoln Project, a Republican political action committee that has targeted Cruz in recent weeks, joked that the senator
Nielsen Media Research has added a new dimension to its systems of tracking TV programming and the viewers who are tuning in. The organization has launched Gracenote Inclusion Analytics, a new division set to deliver “unprecedented visibility into the gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation of talent appearing in TV programming and the audiences watching it,” the company said in a statement released Thursday. “The new solution empowers content creators, owners, distributors and advertisers with much-needed data around on-screen diversity and representation to enable more inclusive content,” Nielsen said. The new company will “accelerate diversity transformation in Hollywood,” the company noted.
Democrats’ calls for an indefinite commission to investigate the non-leftist Capitol riot should prepare you for another multi-year Russia collusion hoax-style narrative with intricate webs of players, evidence, and lies.
One of the key facts in this accelerated use of police powers against Democrats’ political opposition is the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. As Tristan Justice explained Monday, Democrats used Sicknick’s death in the aftermath of the riot to help construct their narrative of murderous Trump-supporting thugs attempting an “insurrection.”(Snip)Sicknick’s is the only death that could directly implicate the rioters in “murder.”
We can expect that the lies and coverups that already have occurred related
Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s pick to lead a Capitol security investigation in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot hurled multiple partisan insults at congressional Republicans, even calling for some of them to lose their jobs.
In a now-deleted tweet just one week after the Capitol incident, Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré publicly insulted Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, calling him a “little peace of sh**” and calling for him to “be run out of DC and Disbarred ASAP.” He also said Hawley and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas are “aaa hats” and “high order white privilege.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) favorability is under water, a Politico/Morning Consult survey reveals.
The survey, taken February 12-15, among 1,987 registered voters, asked respondents to rate a number of prominent politicians, including the minority leader.
A majority have an unfavorable view of McConnell, 64 percent, compared to 18 percent who expressed a favorable view. His unfavorability rating is higher than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA). Fifty-three percent gave the 80-year-old speaker an unfavorable rating compared to 37 percent who expressed favorable views. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also fares better than McConnell, seeing 31 percent favorability and 42 unfavorability.
The survey’s margin of error is +/- 2 percent.
Rolling blackouts in Texas have put the importance of oil pipelines into perspective, according to business executives.
Ryan Palazzo, a former chief operating officer of a pipeline construction company and a resident of Houston, Texas, received text messages on Feb. 15 about rolling blackouts to protect the electricity grid which was strained by record low temperatures. Millions have been affected since.
“It’s not because there’s not enough natural gas. It’s because of the switch to renewables. They’re not able to, in the short term, keep the grid stable. It’s unfortunate, but energy is essential to everything that we do,” said Palazzo, who was laid off in November, right after the election.
A British-Nigerian actress who was fired from a U.K. revival of “The Color Purple” over past homophobic comments—and later sued a theater and her former agents—has lost her legal battle. Seyi Omooba was cast to play the leading role in the celebrated musical at the Curve Theatre in Leicester, England, in 2019. Shortly after producers announced her as Celie—an African-American woman living in the South in the early 20th century who develops a romantic and sexual relationship with another woman—anti-LGBTQ comments she had posted on social media in 2014 became public. “I do not believe you can be born gay,
An “evil” Florida man burglarized 10 homes — purposely targeting his grieving victims and striking when he knew they were attending funerals, authorities said.
Ronald Lee Rose, 42, of Lake Wales, is facing multiple counts of armed burglary and grand theft in a series of home heists between October and Feb. 8 in Auburndale, Mulberry, Lakeland and Haines City, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday.
Rose allegedly researched his targets, hitting up homes either owned by a recently deceased person or one of their relatives, Judd said.
“He was very respectful, he would make small cuts, or jimmy the door,” Judd told reporters.
President Reagan created Rush Limbaugh. To be sure, Limbaugh did have talent on loan from God, but he did not have a national audience. By repealing the Fairness Doctrine, which silenced conservatives, Reagan made Limbaugh's success possible. (Snip) Limbaugh also took on the media. Boy howdy. His attacks were relentless and encouraging. His listeners cheered his attacks on the media because someone finally articulated their inner thoughts.
We credit (and rightly so) President Emeritus Donald John Trump for inspiring politicians to punch back twice as hard (as Professor Glenn Reynolds puts it). The Donald never starts a feud. He finishes them.
Limbaugh whetted (not wetted) the appetite for such leadership.
The Australian government has been blindsided by Facebook suddenly blocking all news on the platform in Australia but says the “heavy-handed” move will not stop parliament from passing landmark laws to force tech giants to pay for journalism.
Australians woke up on Thursday to discover they couldn’t view or share news on the social network after Facebook blocked the content in an escalation of a row over whether it should have to pay media companies for displaying their content.
Facebook is opposed to the federal government’s news media code which has already passed the lower house of parliament and is expected to soon pass the upper house.
A Florida restaurant is getting some heat — and praise — for telling its patrons that “face diapers” aren’t required to dine there.
Beckyjack’s Food Shack, in Spring Hill, Hernando County, posted a photo to Facebook Sunday of the sign taped to its window.
“Face diapers not required,” it said. “Everyone welcome.”
“Howdy Folks! Happy Valentine’s Day,” said the caption on the post. “A friendly reminder that we DO NOT require Face Masks.”
Since then, the posting has racked up about 1,700 reactions, 2,000 comments and 373 shares.
Owner Jesse Fox told WFLA he simply wanted to inform customers and staff of the eatery’s policy.
The phrase “saying the quiet part loud,” for the uninitiated, takes its name from “The Simpsons.”In an episode where Springfield holds a film festival, Mr. Burns enters his hagiographical film into the running — and bribes two of the judges, expecting to win. When one of the judges, Krusty the Klown, is asked to account for why he supports Burns’ dreck, he replies, “Let’s just say it moved me … to a bigger house!“Realizing his mistake, he takes his seat. “Oops. I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.”So if you were wondering, this is the scene that’s become the go-to phrase
I only spoke to Rush Limbaugh once. He interviewed me for his magazine. He was—as anyone who knew him will tell you—quiet, intelligent, self-effacing. I think back now on our long phone conversation, and I’m glad I got to tell him this story.
My father was a famous disc jockey in New York. He was good, very good, as good as any broadcaster I’ve ever heard. He was a liberal—of the old style, back when liberals were liberal, not like now. But oh, he hated Rush. Hated everything Rush stood for. To him, Rush was Father Coughlin reborn. A demagogue.
I got a Covid-19 vaccination the other day. Even though I displayed remarkable courage, I was not awarded a lollipop. Media and Faucistas are fussing over a chaotic delivery system reminiscent of that botched Obama-BidenCare rollout that fed the historic 2010 midterm rout of Democrats in the House plus about 1,000 elected Dems in state legislatures across the country.
Not that Barack Obama cares, but his party has still not recovered from that electoral catastrophe. And, oh, look, here comes another congressional redistricting. Millions of doses of the new vaccines have gone missing. Millions of people who want the inoculations haven’t a clue if they qualify
Two suspects sought in the shooting of a movie-goer who shushed them in an Atlanta theater have been arrested, police said. Camyrn King, 20, and Yvonne Crawford, 22, were arrested in Indiana by the US Marshals Service for allegedly shooting a woman in the shoulder after she asked them to quiet down inside an AMC theater in Atlanta in January, police said Wednesday.
The two women, who were charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, will be extradited back to Atlanta, department officials said.(Snip) The victim, Rickell Etheridge, 22, told cops she was
The FBI and US attorney’s office in Brooklyn have begun an investigation into how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration handled the state’s nursing home crisis during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report Wednesday.
The investigation is not yet far along and is focused on top members of Cuomo’s coronavirus task force, the Albany Times-Union reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Neither Cuomo nor any administration official has at this point been accused of any wrongdoing.
Members of Cuomo’s task force include New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa. The latter drew scrutiny this month after she seemingly admitted
A Baltimore convict and community activist has come up with what he says is solution to the city's soaring murder rate—paying killers not to shoot people. Tyree Moorehead spent 18 years in prison for second degree murder which he committed when he was 15. He was released from prison in 2012 and has since devoted his time to trying to work with criminals in Baltimore to reduce crime rates. He told FOX 45 this week that he believes the way to lower the city's soaring shooting numbers is to pay criminals not to kill people. 'I can relate to the shooters,
Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, 44, was married to conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died Tuesday after being diagnosed with advanced-stage lung cancer more than a year ago.
Kathryn Limbaugh, born Kathryn Rogers, announced her husband's death in a Wednesday statement at the beginning of "The Rush Limbaugh Show."
The former event planner met the radio show host in 2004 while working at a charity golf tournament and married him six years later in 2010 when she was 33 and he was 59. The two dated for three years before getting engaged, according to The Washington Post's "Reliable Sources."
Malia Obama has reportedly signed on to write for an upcoming streaming series helmed by Donald Glover, who just inked an eight-figure production deal with Amazon Prime. Glover’s new pact with the streaming platform will see the Emmy and Grammy winner produce a number of as-yet undeveloped television projects, such as a potential new series dubbed “Hive.” He tapped writer Janine Nabers (“Watchmen”) to help lead the team which includes the former First Daughter of the United States, the Hollywood Reporter first reported.(Snip) Malia, 22, is a student in Harvard University’s class of 2021, and this would mark her first professional entertainment gig
TOPEKA, Kan. — Bob Dole, a former longtime senator and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
Dole, 97, said in a short statement that he was diagnosed recently and would begin treatment on Monday.
“While I certainly have some hurdles ahead, I also know that I join millions of Americans who face significant health challenges of their own,” Dole said.
Dole, a native of Russell, Kansas, represented the state in Congress for almost 36 years before resigning from the Senate in 1996
WASHINGTON— President Joe Biden is in a political firestorm over how and when to get more schools open during the coronavirus pandemic, with Republicans seizing on confusion surrounding Biden’s goal to reopen a majority of schools within his first 100 days to paint the president as beholden to teachers’ unions at the expense of American families.Biden’s administration in recent weeks has sent muddled and at times contradictory messages about his goal. On Tuesday night, the president said his 100-day goal was to have most elementary schools open five days a week, seeming to conflict with his own press secretary, who had said last week that schools would be considered “open”
NASA will today try and land its Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars in a crucial moment for the space agency's hopes of colonising the red planet. The descent of the $2.2billion car-sized spacecraft will be live streamed by NASA from 2:15 pm ET (7:15pm GMT) and will show Perseverance trying to endure the so-called 'seven minutes of terror'.
This refers to the tumultuous conditions which batter the craft as it enters the Martian atmosphere and approaches the surface. Temperatures are expected to exceed 2,000°F and a supersonic parachute will be deployed to slow the rover down from its entry speed of around 12,000mph
A Bad Week for The Science™
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The late comedian Mitch Hedberg, known for his clever one-liners, had a great quip about following his dreams.
“I’m sick of following my dreams,” he said. “I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.”
If you’ve been following The Science™—and boy had you better, lest you risk being accosted by a self-appointed member of the mask police in the supermarket—you might be feeling a little bit like Mitch Hedberg felt about his dreams.
Monday, we learned that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was consulting teachers’ unions about whether it was safe to reopen schools.
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A young friend has been avalanching me with notes about how “disastrously” Trump and his followers misbehaved on January 6. Presumably if no rally had taken place in Washington to protest the presidential election returns, then the Democratic administration would never have launched a crusade against “domestic terrorism.” It was the populist Right and the outgoing president who apparently caused this era of repression to commence. If they had paid more attention to our beleaguered circumstances, then they would have avoided their rash decision to call for a mass demonstration on January 6.My response to this widely held opinion is that none of this may matter in the end.
For more than 30 years, Rush Limbaugh sat down and talked to Americans about America. Across the country, in pickup trucks, roadside diners and quiet cubicles where his listeners were obliged to wear headphones lest they offend, his rich baritone rolled out of the air, and it spoke the truth. Rush Limbaugh changed the course of American history. Without him, the conservative movement and the country would be fundamentally different today. For this, the left cursed him, and some on the right as well. But in the end, he beat them back time and again. CORRECTION*
A proposed law from the Land Down Under did not go over well with Facebook.
Facebook has decided to block all news in and from Australian users in response to a proposed law that would require the platform to pay news publishers for stories that appear on Facebook.
“In response to Australia’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content,” said William Easton, Facebook’s Managing Director, Facebook Australia & New Zealand in a blog post.
These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine; to self-induced recession; to riot, arson, and looting; to a contested election; and to a riot at the U.S. Capitol. In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the virus attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets? Or are we descending into a sort of madness? It might have been understandable that trillions of dollars had to be borrowed to keep a suffocating economy breathing. But it makes little sense to keep borrowing $2 trillion a year to prime an economy now set to roar back
It’s never about science. It’s always about punishing the American people.On his first day in office Joe Biden killed off an estimated 52,100 American jobs. That must be a record, right? After his bizarre inaugural behind fences and 20,000 military troops, Biden hobbled to the Oval Officer where he signed several executive orders including the end of construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the end of construction of the Trump border wall.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reacted to the scandal around New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic by stating that while Florida was facing criticism for not closing beaches, “the media totally ignored how the governors were handling the nursing homes.”DeSantis said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:30] “Well, if you go back to March, I was getting criticized for not closing the beaches, which you don’t close beaches for a respiratory virus. So, I was right on that. But the media totally ignored how the governors were handling the nursing homes.
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President Biden claimed during his CNN town hall in Wisconsin on Tuesday that his administration came into office with no coronavirus vaccines available. Zachary Evans gives this helpful straight news account for NR (also published here at Yahoo! News):
Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 21, and the second dose in January. While discussing the issue of vaccine supply during the town hall, Biden initially said there were 50 million doses available when he assumed office.
“We came into office, there were only 50 million doses that were available. By the end of July we’ll have over 600 million doses,” Biden told host Anderson Cooper.
Big Tech’s efforts to restrict user access to various Internet platforms are a serious challenge, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with leaders of parliamentary factions on Wednesday.
He responded to the recent statements made by Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma (lower house), who put the spotlight on Big Tech’s violation of freedom of speech.
“What you said about these so-called platforms, IT companies, is a serious challenge not only for us – we see what has happened in the [United] States,” Putin noted. According to him, it is quite obvious that such an “ideological divide” runs throughout the world.
For the first time in its history, the Republican Study Committee (RSC)—the largest conservative caucus on Capitol Hill—will make countering the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a key part of its agenda under the leadership of its newly elected chairman, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).
As part of this large-scale effort, Banks said that he and others in the House committee will introduce more than 20 bills this week alone dedicated to confronting the China threat and holding the Biden administration accountable for weak policies on China.
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Facebook announced Thursday it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the “arbiter of truth” role that the company once renounced. The social media giant said it is adding a section to its climate change information hub that will features facts with accurate information about misconceptions and falsehoods. This will include the fact that polar bear populations are declining because of global warming, as well as the fact that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere harms plant life. The company said it plans to rely on experts from George Mason University, the Yale Program on
A common refrain from Joe Biden over the past decade has been his commitment to hunters and other sportsmen. In a 2013 Facebook town hall event with Parents magazine, then Vice President Biden proudly stated, “no one’s taking my shotguns” when the issue of the Second Amendment was addressed.
Biden has stuck to his guns – or more accurately his shotguns – many times when the issue of gun control has been brought up. The same year as the town hall, Biden offered advice for self-defense – buy a shotgun, not an assault rifle.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s position as a moderate Democrat in the red state of West Virginia has propped him up to be a powerful man in Washington these days.
Even though Manchin has signaled support with Republicans on several issues, the Biden administration is wooing him in order to push progressive ticket items in its economic stimulus package.
Yet, West Virginians are holding out hope that the senator stands firm on opposing items that could be detrimental to some of the state’s most important industries and small businesses.
At least 30 Taliban members died after an explosive device detonated during a bomb-making tutorial in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province over the weekend, the Defense Post reported on Tuesday.
A group of Taliban jihadists gathered at a mosque in the village of Qultaq on February 13 to receive training on how to assemble bombs and improvised explosive devices (IED). An explosive device accidentally detonated, killing at least “30 Taliban fighters including six foreign nationals who were expert mine makers,” according to the Afghan Army’s 209th Shaheen Corps, which confirmed the deadly blast in a statement released Saturday.
Americans need to get their kids back in school. Where there are powerful teachers’ unions, though, the teachers have discovered the joys of a bunny slipper commute, a minimal workday, and a full paycheck. When NBC’s Savannah Guthrie pressed Kamala Harris on the new administration’s plan to restart classroom learning, Harris replied with non-responsive, meaningless, double talk. Had she been auditioning for an Irwin Corey homage, it would have impressive. As it was, it showed both an administration and a vice president that are incompetent.
During Joe Biden’s campaign for president, he said he was going to transform the country. Was it clear what he meant by that? The mainstream media presented Biden as a moderate. However, moderates are not usually in the business of transforming. So, it would have been wise to ask the candidate what he meant.Was Biden’s promised transformation merely a reprise of Obama’s change slogan? Was he just planning to roll back Trumpism and return to the Democrat priorities of the Obama years – healthcare, education, immigration, and the environment? Or…was he going to pack the court, pursue a Green New Deal, enact reparations for slavery, and abolish fracking,
U.S. officials posted in nations that have low-grade medical capabilities are reportedly having to seek vaccines from foreign governments, including Russia, due to the lack of supply of vaccines coming from the Biden administration.“At least 13 foreign governments offered to inoculate U.S. officials serving abroad with their own supplies of U.S.-made Moderna and Pfizer vaccines — a gesture the State Department has already accepted, said senior U.S. officials. The department is evaluating offers from at least eight other countries that are willing to do the same,” The Washington Post reported. “In Russia, some State Department personnel appealed to Moscow for doses of its Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine
Rush Limbaugh: Death Of A Giant
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Though widely anticipated, the death of Rush Limbaugh after a long battle with cancer is a major blow to conservatives. His witty, often acerbic commentary had been a daily anchor to reality for many Americans, tired of the mainstream media’s lies, bias and prevarications. But with his death, Limbaugh leaves a hole in the conservative movement that is impossible to fill.
The center-right media firmament has many bright stars. Unfortunately, none shine as brightly as Rush did. As the numerous accounts of his death and life point out, he was the most listened to radio show host in history.
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Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) weighed in on the spat between former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Despite some in the GOP distancing themselves from Trump now that he is out of office, Scott emphasized the need for more of Trump’s policies for a better economy. He added that with how the media covers Trump, he is still “the most powerful political figure on either side.”
Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry announced his candidacy on Wednesday for Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat currently held by GOP Senator Ron Johnson.
Thirty-three year-old Lasry is the second Democratic candidate to enter the race, which is expected to be one of the most competitive in 2022. Johnson hasn't announced yet whether he'll seek another term, but Lasry sharply criticized Johnson's time in office.
Like millions of my fellow Americans, it was like a gut shot hearing the news that Rush Limbaugh went to be with the LORD after succumbing to stage four lung cancer. (snip) He is the reason, this American, who also happens to be Black, became a conservative. (snip) I was told by my parents and the culture that Conservatives/Republicans were racist towards Blacks. Now I was finding myself agreeing with a guy that the media had deemed as dangerous. This was a real conundrum since, at the time, I believed everything the media reported as truth.
“I don’t think he’s going to be in the picture. I don’t think he can. He’s fallen so far.” Thus spoke Nikki Haley -- former South Carolina governor, former ambassador to the UN, and now presidential aspirant -- exposing once again her self-serving bona fides. In denigrating Donald Trump, the establishment Republican ended up revealing to Trump’s loyal base of 75-80 million supporters just how much she is motivated by opportunism. Also, just how out of touch she is with the rank and file.
Haley’s betrayal of President Trump took the form of a forceful condemnation: “We need to acknowledge he let us down.
Faith over fear
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An eight-year-old boy came into my office the other day. He sat on the examination table while his father waited in an adjacent chair. The boy had a mask on — you know the type, homemade with a cute design on the front. His father had no mask.
The boy had been brought to my office to have his injured ankle evaluated, twisted while playing basketball with his friends in the park. "You can take your mask off if you would like," I told the boy. He glanced over at his unmasked father. "It's okay, son, you can take it off," said the boy's father.
President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping “gets it” when Biden criticizes China’s for holding the Uighurs in internment camps and other human rights abuses.Biden explained to Xi, “no American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States.” Anchor Anderson Cooper said, “You just talked to China’s president.Biden said, “Yes, for two hours.”Cooper said, “What about the Uighurs?”Biden said, “We must speak up for human rights. It’s who we are. My comment to him was — and I know him well, and he knows me well. We had a two-hour conversation.”
Mitch Miscalculated Bigly
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So glad to see President Trump get a second wind now that he has been acquitted for life for a second time! (As an aside, will San Fran Nan make a third try? Entirely possible given the incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome among most House Democrats.) The subject of his ire has become Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY), who stooped to a new low in his post-acquittal floor speech during which he finally displayed his true anti-Trump sentiments:
McConnell said the former president was “practically and morally responsible” for the attack on the Capitol on January 6. …
Rush Limbaugh: Simply the Best
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Rush Limbaugh has died. And it hurts. Significantly.
And that's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, considering we've known this day was coming for over a year since his gut-wrenching announcement of stage 4, terminal cancer. Yet, despite knowing this day was coming, so many of us are left devastated and speechless.
Why?
It's easy. Rush Limbaugh was the very best. And we have all been lucky enough to witness this greatness in our lives in a very intimate way, every day for more than three decades.
It's impossible to not feel tremendous loss when that kind of brilliance is ripped away from our daily routine.
Talent on Loan from God
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We heard him say it hundreds of times, as did many of you: “Talent on loan from God.” Some of Rush’s Limbaugh’s detractors liked to claim the statement was haughty. But those of us who knew him recognized the famous signoff to his radio program as humility, not ego. Rush was truly an extraordinary talent, a media icon of unprecedented stature. His radio audience of 27 million Americans looked to him not just for guidance and insight but to give voice to their most deeply held convictions and most deeply felt concerns. Every time he sat down behind his golden EIB microphone,
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Gov. Abbott Telling Texas to Stay Home Due
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Gov. Abbott Telling Texas to Stay Home Due
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Texas has been hit hard with a once-in-a-generation snowstorm that has reached all parts of the state. Due to the power outages and the hazardous road conditions that have caused multiple crashes and left motorists stranded, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has told people to stay home.
This unique and deadly situation the state is dealing with was seen as an opportunity by some liberals on social media to mock Abbott's call for caution by comparing it to Texas' loose COVID-19 restrictions. [Tweets]
What seems to be lost on those making the comparison is that there have been deadly crashes, such as the one that occurred in Fort Worth.
An Oakland Chinatown liquor store owner was arrested by police after he intervened in a robbery outside his store on Monday, KTVU has learned.
A 36-year-old man faces one count of felony assault with a firearm, authorities said.
A community member told KTVU that the store owner fired four gunshots when he witnessed a woman being robbed for her camera outside his store at 9th and Franklin streets on Monday at about 5:45 p.m. No one was injured after his gun went off.
On Tuesday night, Joe Biden not only said that white supremacy is the “greatest domestic terror” threat in the US, but he blamed military vets and former police officers for it’s “growth”.Biden’s incredible remarks came in response to one of the carefully selected questions during the event that served as an infomercial for far-left radicalism on CNN.The nation’s 46th president, whose calls for “unity” are little more than hot air, cast an aura of distrust over the veterans and law enforcement by asserting that they were a driving force behind the “white supremacist” growth in America.
Greg Kelly spoke with President Donald Trump on Wednesday night following the reported death of conservative legend Rush Limbaugh.President Trump told Greg Kelly, “Rush Limbaugh thought we won the election. We did win the election. It was disgraceful what happened.”President Trump told Greg Kelly he will not be returning to Twitter, saying, “It’s become really boring.”President Trump then ripped on Hillary before the interview was over. “You know the angriest person in the country today is Hillary Clinton.
Former President Trump issued a statement in rebuttal to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), calling him a “business as usual” politician with “status quo policies” and “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.”Trump said: The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse.