Posts on Friday, February 19, 2021
Neither CNN nor Politico are incorrect in that approach, but the timing of their epiphanies is certainly … curious. For instance, after a full year of assigning personal responsibility for every COVID-19 development to Donald Trump, Politico suddenly discovered that presidents don’t have total control of pandemic management three weeks into Joe Biden’s term: The irony of their headline about Biden’s voyage of discovery no doubt eluded Politico’s social-media editors. Biden’s not the only one discovering federalism and the limits of executive power, it seems. The actual piece makes those limits its lead:
President Joe Biden’s presidency hinges in large part on his success in handling
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When one member of a romantic partnership practices infidelity, he or she becomes hyper-paranoid about the other partner committing the same crime.(Snip)The Lincoln Project is the apotheosis of this dynamic. Marketed to mild-mannered conservatives as the best chance to take down Trumpism without sacrificing principle, the group turned out to be even more corrupt than its critics on the Right suspected. (Snip)The true project of the Establishment right now, and especially of the Grift Right, is to subvert the morale and self-belief of right-wing people such that, in the future, they will once again quietly accept whatever forever war, whatever exploitative “free trade” policy Establishment donors dream up.
A whistleblower leaked shocking images of Coca-Cola’s online training modules instructing employees to “try to be less white.” Karlyn Borysenko, an anti-critical race theory activist, obtained the images from an internal whistleblower and posted them online: “Confronting Racism: Understanding what it means to be white, challenging what it means to be racist” “Try to be less white”To be less white is to: Be less oppressive; Be less arrogant; Be less certain
One of Rush Limbaugh’s friends and former employees wrote Friday about the late talk show host’s journey to the Christian faith in the years leading up to his death.Joel C. Rosenberg, a bestselling author and editor-in-chief of All Israel News, wrote a column reflecting on his friendship with Limbaugh, which began when the host hired him in 1994 to work as a writer and research director for “The Limbaugh Letter,” his monthly publication.(Tweets) “I had the rare opportunity to see Rush’s extraordinary, God-given talent firsthand,” Rosenberg wrote, going on to recount how he worked closely with Limbaugh and members of his inner circle, which he described as an invaluable education
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said Friday that President Joe Biden was “breaking up with the American public” in favor of “hot new exotic partner, the world.”Gutfeld took a moment on “The Five” to lay out a series of foreign policy problems that Biden didn’t inherit because of the policies implemented by former President Donald Trump. Watch:(Video) “A new slogan for Joe, instead of ‘America First,’ it could be ‘America, you are not all that’, or ‘America, it’s not me, it’s you,’ because in a sense, Joe Biden is breaking up with the American public in favor of a hot new exotic partner, the world,” Gutfeld said.
President Joe Biden faces his first major defeat in the Senate as his nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget Neera Tanden meets Democrat opposition.Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-WV) announced Friday afternoon that he would oppose Tanden’s confirmation.“I believe her overtly partisan statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget,” he said in a statement.The news broke while Biden was traveling to Michigan on Air Force One to visit a Pfizer vaccine manufacturing plant.
Amongst the record-breaking number of executive actions taken by President Joe Biden was one related to a little-known, frightening Obama-era program called Operation Choke Point. The program, dubbed so under former Attorney General Eric Holder, uses the power of the federal government to target legal yet leftist-disfavored businesses. These include gun sellers, pawnshops, and short-term money lenders.The Trump administration did its best to end this blatantly unconstitutional program that sought to discriminate against legal industries. In 2017, the Justice Department declared the program “formally over.” At the end of Trump’s term,
Dallas—The Texas power outage has become the Texas power outrage. Electricity supply and demand in Texas has really stabilized now. But when it was grossly out of whack over the past several days, the cost of power in the wholesale market went crazy. It went from about $50 per Megawatt to $9,000. That didn’t affect retail many customers because they were on a fixed-rate plan. See explanation of plan types here. But if you were on a variable or indexed plan, your rate—and therefore, your electric bill—may have skyrocketed. One customer messaged us: “Mine is over $1,000
This bit of breaking news caught by Tristan Justice at The Federalist slipped under the radar a bit yesterday — Dem. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has flip-flopped back on his earlier announced support for statehood for Puerto Rico. During a community Zoom meeting Thursday, Schumer said he now opposes Puerto Rican statehood. “I don’t agree with them, I’m not going to support their statehood bill,” Schumer said of legislation from Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres that would open the door to Puerto Rico becoming a state.
The motives behind this announcement are likely multidimensional. It was in the heat of the firestorm
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to be trying to rig an “independent security review” of the January 6th Capitol riots by appointing an extreme left-wing partisan to lead the investigation, and Republicans are starting to cry foul.
Retired Lt. General Russel Honoré, hand-picked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month to oversee the “9/11-style” commission, is under increased scrutiny after numerous crude, extreme, and profoundly partisan tweets and comments have come to light.
Honoré, best known for leading relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was appointed by Pelosi without any consultation with Republicans.
Because I’m more than a year old, I’m old enough to remember the days of Joe Biden promising to “crush” the virus the day he took office. For most of the 2020 campaign season, the current president asserted that Trump had the ability to do so much more than he was but that he was simply choosing not to do so. That become a common media narrative as well, as every single COVID death was hung around Trump’s neck as if he had personally murdered all of them. With Biden becoming president, though, we are seeing a sudden shift in the narrative.
The US Supreme Court is set to consider President Trump’s voter fraud cases in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan on Friday.These three cases are on the Supreme Court docket for Friday.(Tweet) Here is more on today’s Supreme Court cases.As a reminder, Pennsylvania Democrat officials changed the election rules weeks before the election without consulting the legislative branch. This is unlawful in the state. It will be interesting to see if SCOTUS is the latest lawless branch of government following today’s decisions. Case Number 20-542 -Republican Party of Pennsylvania, Petitioner v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al.
CLAIM: “Just over four weeks ago, America had no real plan to vaccinate most of the country.” – President Joe Biden
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Trump had a plan that was complicated by the diverse policies of state governments.
(Snip)In fact, a key component of Operation Warp Speed had been to prepare for distribution long before anyone knew which particular vaccine (if any) would be proven effective.
Biden’s false claims echoes repeated false statements by members of his administration that they were “starting from scratch” on the vaccination effort.
(Snip)Trump’s Operation Warp Speed not only developed vaccines in record times (Snip) but also developed plans to distribute the vaccine across the country.
WASHINGTON—President Biden plans to visit Texas next week as the Lone Star State deals with a crisis-level storm that has left millions without power or drinking water.“It depends, but the answer is yes,” Biden told reporters Friday when asked if he would visit Texas but said he didn’t want it to upset recovery efforts.“I don’t want to be a burden. When the president lands in any city in America, it has a long tail,” he said.“If in fact it’s concluded I can do it without creating a burden, I plan on going. We’ll make that decision probably beginning of next week.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo is in hot water after sending thousands of COVID patients into nursing homes and long-term care facilities and then lying about if for months. But Governor Andrew Cuomo was not alone .Four other Democrat governors also signed orders like Cuomo to send sickly COVID patients back to nursing homes where thousands of seniors were killed from the coronavirus.An updated study revealed 45% of all US coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes. That comes out to tens of thousands of deaths in US Nursing Homes! That is a bloodbath!! Italy also saw 40% of their coronavirus deaths in
Well, it’s on.
Donald Trump ended his post-presidency silence not with a blast at President Joe Biden, or at the Left, or at the House impeachment managers, but at the true enemy — Mitch McConnell.
The Trump forces aren’t forming a third party, but they do want to take over or — more accurately — maintain their current grip on the GOP, and McConnell is an obstacle.
The Senate minority leader declared his independence from Trump in his lacerating speech at the end of the Senate impeachment trial. McConnell’s speech is as close to catharsis as he comes in public, after years of what must have been pent-up frustration dealing with Trump
Russel Honoré, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) selection to lead the review of Capitol security after the events of January 6, is facing scrutiny after past tweets reveal partisan behavior, particularly directed towards Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
Honoré, a retired Army lieutenant general who has recently been critical of Republicans, called for Hawley to be disbarred earlier this year.
“This little piece of s— with his @Yale law degree should be run out of DC and Disbarred ASAP,” Honoré said in a January tweet, which appears to have been deleted.
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he will not vote to confirm President Biden's pick to be Office of Management and Budget director, Neera Tanden, endangering and potentially tanking her confirmation. Because of the 50-50 split in the Senate, one Republican would have to back Tanden to compensate for Manchin's "no" vote, which seems unlikely. Citing Tanden's past statements and tweets as a cause for concern, Manchin explained his expected vote:
I have carefully reviewed Neera Tanden's public statements and tweets that were personally directed towards my colleagues
Avivo Village consists of 100 individual, climate-controlled and secure pods, which will provide Minnesotans experiencing homelessness real solutions to permanent housing.
Emily Bastian, vice president of Avivo, walks through the rows of multi-colored homes lining the inside of a warehouse on Washington Avenue in the North Loop.
“This is very exciting. It’s a new model, people have not done this before,” Bastian said. “Everyone deserves housing irregardless of who they are or choices that they make.”
John Kerry endorses 'climate weirding'
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John Kerry says the world faces a climate change doomsday within nine years unless drastic action now. The comment by President Biden’s special envoy for climate change came during a segment for CBS‘ “Eye on Earth” hosted by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy. “Some people get hung up on the term ‘global warming’ and say, ‘well, I thought everything’s supposed to get warmer?’ I heard one scientist say this is really ‘global weirding.’ Is that a better way to think of this?”(Snip) “I think it’s a very appropriate way to think of it,” the Democrat said. “It’s directly related to the warming
Even Sen. Ted Cruz admits his decision to vacation in sunny Cancun, Mexico, this week while his home state of Texas was suffering record cold and massive power outages was “obviously a mistake,” as he told reporters in Houston upon his hastily arranged return.
But it turns out his big error was when he went — not where. While the Republican firebrand’s public relations instincts may have been off, his travel ones weren’t — at least according to Expedia Group. Cancun is, in fact, the No. 1 destination Americans are booking flights to in so far 2021, the online travel
For anyone looking for evidence that boasts about “America First” — and the need for America to go-it-alone — are over, President Biden’s speech to the Munich Security Conference was meant as an opening argument. “America is back, the trans-Atlantic alliance is back,” Mr. Biden declared. Trying to expunge the last four years without ever once naming his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, Mr. Biden said “we are not looking backward.” And then he went on to offer a 15-minute ode to the power of alliances. He talked about an America that was itself overcoming challenges to the democratic experiment.
On November 17, 1961, The Twilight Zone premiered its "The Midnight Sun" episode.(Snip)All, however, was not what it seemed. It was the Twilight Zone after all.
The Earth's orbit had changed, but instead of going nearer to the Sun, it was spinning away. Instead of being 120 °F, the temperature is -10 °F.
The heat was all a dream. A fevered dream. In reality, people were freezing to death.(Snip)Which brings me to my favorite physicist, Leona Woods. (Snip)"In 1979 -- when the scientific consensus was global cooling -- Dr. Libby forecast a rise in temperatures until the year 2000 when it would get colder again for the next 50 years.
Governor Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration for all 254 counties in Texas on Feb 12 as a winter storm struck the state.
With the declaration, Abbott deployed state resources to help local officials responding to problems caused by the storm.
“I thank President Biden for quickly issuing a Federal Emergency Declaration for Texas as we continue to respond to severe winter weather conditions throughout the state,” said Governor Abbott. “This disaster declaration provides Texas with additional resources and assistance that will help our communities respond to this winter weather.”
President Joe Biden reassured European leaders Friday that he would once again work with them, apologizing for former President Donald Trump’s approach while in office.“I’m sending a clear message to the world America is back … we are not looking backward, we are looking forward together,” Biden said.The president delivered remarks virtually from the White House to the Munich Security Conference on Friday.“The last four years have been hard but Europe and the United States have to lead with competence once more,” he said.
Rush Limbaugh was conservative
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William F. Buckley was one of the great conservatives of the 20th century — a voice that articulated, remarkably well, the values of conservatism. As he declared about the magazine he founded, National Review, "It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no other is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." But what Rush Limbaugh did was bring that message to millions. And not just the message — he brought both comedy and empathy to the message. He brought joy to it. He showed millions of Americans not only that conservatism is fine, it's fantastic
President Biden on Friday told a virtual summit of world leaders that he was a “professor” as of two years ago—touting a role that previously drew controversy because he was paid handsomely for nine reported visits to campus. Biden earned nearly $1 million from the University of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2019, despite appearing rarely at the Ivy League school. Biden said in a livestreamed address to the Munich Security Conference, “Two year ago, as you pointed out, when I last spoke in Munich, I was a private citizen. I was a professor, not an elected official.”
A Sudanese refugee has stabbed an immigration officer to death in southern France after learning his asylum request had been rejected. The migrant, 38, attacked the 46-year-old head of the refugee welcome centre in the city of Pau around 11am, local media reported. The officer, a father-of-one, was found in his office with multiple stab wounds to his chest and died a short time later. Police told BMFTV that the migrant was known to them for acts of violence, and had been jailed twice in 2017 for armed assault. He was not known to anti-terror services.
AOC calls for ‘full investigation’
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a chorus of New York lawmakers demanding an investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Democrat said in a statement: "I support our state’s return to co-equal governance and stand with our local officials calling for a full investigation of the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes during COVID-19. Thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers lost their lives in nursing homes throughout the pandemic. Their loved ones and the public deserve answers and transparency from their elected leadership, and the Secretary to the Governor’s remarks warrant a full investigation."
John Paul Mac Isaac, whose discovery of a laptop that by virtually all accounts belongs to Hunter Biden, the son of current president Joe Biden, is suing Twitter for defamation.
“John Paul Mac Isaac has sued Twitter for defamation in connection with the social media giant’s censorship last year of materials gleaned from a laptop that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, left at a computer repair shop,” Just the News reported.“Isaac owned the computer repair shop in Delaware called The Mac Shop, and on April 12, 2019 was asked to ‘recover information
After he was suspended from Twitter this week, journalist Paul Sperry said the White House is silent over Big Tech censorship because it benefits certain politicians.
Sperry told The Epoch Times that President Joe Biden has been “silent” about companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google taking action against certain accounts—namely conservatives—because he “benefits from the censorship.”
“In fact, he’s in the White House now largely because Twitter blocked the New York Post’s scoops about the Biden family’s shady foreign dealings and influence peddling in Communist China and Ukraine,” Sperry said, referring to the Post’s reports and other reports that claimed his family members’ including son and brother,
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has ordered the State of Florida to lower its flags to half-staff to honor Rush Limbaugh’s memory.The Florida governor’s honoring of the great American patriot Rush was met with a flood of outrage by the perpetually aggrieved left.(Tweets) Earlier, DeSantis had praised Rush Limbaugh upon learning about his passing: (Tweet) The proposal was made by Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini on Wednesday, when long-time Palm beach resident Rush Limbaugh passed away at age 70 after a bout with lung cancer. (Tweet) “Dear Governor DeSantis: I want to respectfully resquest that you lower all flags across the state to half-staff in honor of radio icon and great Floridian
Oro Valley Republican Mark Finchem is asking his followers to give him money so he can pay off the $15,500 he spent to host an unofficial election integrity hearing in November that was attended by Donald Trump’s lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and served as a forum for unfounded conspiracy theories and baseless allegations that Joe Biden didn’t really win Arizona’s election.
“The reason that there is a debt is because the House of Representatives did not host the event,” the state legislator said in a video (Snip), before asking followers to donate to a PayPal account.
Finchem, who has been a key figure in the #StopTheSteal movement,
The Arizona Senate passed a bill Thursday that would grant the Arizona legislature the authority to subpoena election records like ballots and tabulating equipment, and ignore any laws to the contrary.
The Senate passed Senate Bill 1408 on its third reading in the state’s upper chamber along a 16–14 party-line vote,(Snip)
amends a portion of the Arizona statutes such that county election equipment, systems and records, and other information that is under the control of county personnel “may not be deemed privileged information, confidential information,(Snip)protected from disclosure.”
(Snip) to be retroactive as of Dec. 31, 2019, meaning it would apply to records around the November election.
Dolly Parton humbly turns away a huge
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Legendary singer, songwriter and actress Dolly Parton has managed to once again remind the world why she’s considered the “patron saint of America.”
How? By humbly rejecting an offer to have a statue of her erected in her home state of Tennessee. There aren’t too many people who’d turn down such an honor.“I want to thank the Tennessee legislature for their consideration of a bill to erect a statue of me on the Capitol grounds. I am honored and humbled by their intention but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration,” Parton wrote in a statement
President Biden announced Friday that the U.S. has officially rejoined the Paris climate agreement, reentering the international accord without Senate ratification a month after signing a directive to reverse the Trump administration’s exit. Mr. Biden made the announcement Friday at the Munich Security Conference, which is being held virtually this year, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement saying that “the United States officially becomes a Party again today.” “We can no longer delay or do the bare minimum to address climate change. This is a global existential crisis,” Mr. Biden said. “As of today, the United States is officially
Judicial Crisis Network, Heritage Action for America, and Americans for Public Trust on Thursday announced a more than $2 million joint media and grassroots campaign against two of President Joe Biden’s senior nominees: Xavier Becerra for secretary of Health and Human Services and Vanita Gupta for associate attorney general.
The campaign focuses on the dark money that continues to flow into prominent Democrats’ hands, through radical organizations such as Arabella Advisors. The advocacy group effort is directly targeting “pay-to-play,” a strategy that permits campaign contributions from businesses or enterprises seeking government contracts. “Dark money groups led by Arabella Advisors, among others, now want payback for helping Joe Biden get
An Offering of Squirrels
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t might have been Michelle Malkin — if it wasn’t, you’ll forgive me; the outbreak of global warming this week has robbed me of my long-term memory along with my admiration for the wonders of wind energy in powering the grid — who first coined the term “squirrels” to describe the cynical and often lazy distractions the Democrats and their media allies so often let loose in order to avoid a discussion of substantial and uncomfortable matters.
Squirrels can be large or small. For example, you might not have recognized that the advent of the current wave of identity politics in America was a squirrel — but it was.
Search underway for 100+ undocumented
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A massive search was underway Friday after more than 100 undocumented immigrants jumped out of a refrigerated truck and fled into the woods in sub-freezing weather, Texas authorities said. The incident happened Thursday evening as Bexar County deputies were investigating a report of people running out of air inside a truck that was smuggling immigrants through the U.S.-Mexico border. When deputies arrived at the San Antonio-area gas station where the vehicle was parked, “a large crowd of people poured out of the truck and ran to the woods,” Sheriff Javier Salazar said. About 50 of them were located and found to be
The Uniparty’s Wishful Thinking
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) committed a mortal political error on Saturday when, after voting to acquit President Trump on constitutional grounds, he accused the former president of the crime of being “practically and morally” responsible for the invasion and vandalization of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and the deaths of five people.
McConnell not only signed on to the ultimate NeverTrump loyalty oath of submission to the totalitarian big lie there was no possible doubt about the legitimacy of the election verdict; he also declared Trump had no choice but to accept the result and quietly leave Washington with his tail between his legs.
Cadbury is getting creamed by critics on social media, who say the British candy company is “selling sex to children.” A new commercial to celebrate the iconic Cadbury Creme Egg’s 50th anniversary—happy birthday, you delectable confection!—and promote the chocolatier’s annual Easter lineup, has scandalized fans with its cheeky message. “It’s the Creme Egg Golden Goobilee,” a voiceover proclaims, kicking off a montage of whimsical scenes depicting the many unique ways one can eat a Cadbury Creme Egg.(Snip)“Lickers, let loose … Discreaters, come out of your shell,” the voice continues.
But it’s the money shot at the end of the video
Cuomo silent as damning watchdog report
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A damning watchdog report found that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s directive to nursing-homes forcing them to accept coronavirus patients discharged from hospitals may have caused up to 1,000 more deaths among elderly residents.
The nonprofit Empire Center for Public Policy released its report Thursday. The report, which uses information from the state health department, found that the controversial order was “associated with” more than one in six of the 5,780 nursing-home deaths that occurred in New York state statewide between the end of March and beginning of May. An Albany-based watchdog group says that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nursing home directive was likely responsible
REPORT: Nikki Haley Wanted Meeting
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With President Trump at Mar-a-Lago,
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Without doubt the always positioning, conniving, scheming and politically smarmy Decepticon, Nikki Haley, is planning to use the GOPe apparatus in her effort to become the republican nominee in 2024. This is as certain as the sunrise tomorrow.
However, that said, Haley is now a fully exposed DeceptiCon; except -of course- in the eyes of the most entrenched of the professional political class. [NOTE – CTH archives are of value when researching Nikki Haley on these issues.]This brief excerpt from POLITICO today highlights that President Trump is now well aware of Haley’s motives and elitist intents. As the BIG UGLY unfolds, there will be many left to
An interesting article within Reuters points out how the Democrats in congress are working with the White House to craft legislation to make “social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation.” Or put another way…. The Democrats are attempting to eliminate any ability of those who disagree with them; or worse yet, would outline their corrupt endeavors. Ultimately this level of control is a reaction to fear. So the logical question is: what exactly are they fearful of? Perhaps the answer is in alignment with the reason Democrats have surrounded the capital with military guards, fence and barbed-wire.
Our Dire Future Under Biden
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We are living in what seem to me to be terribly fraught times, times that are even more worrisome than those at the height of Cold War tensions, when we schoolchildren were drilled on what to do in case of a nuclear attack--an attack that was in fact highly unlikely to occur. Why do I say this? What are these overweening concerns?
Many relate to government policies. The Biden administration seems hell bent on reversing every Trump administration policy, even those policies that were quite successful.
A representative of the ruling Chinese Communist Party claimed Friday the sight of American’s suffering in the severe winter storms that devastated Texas and other areas this week is a simple affirmation of a belief among Chinese citizens their country is “on the right path.”
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying offered her stark observation after a state media journalist remarked on calls by western countries for an investigation into human rights abuses in its western Xinjiang region.
Reuters reports in response Hua repeated China’s denials of abuse of Muslims in the region(Snip)
Then she contrasted the vulnerability of many Texans with the festive experience of Chinese during the recently-completed Lunar New Year holiday.
A Minnesota husband and wife accused in connection with setting fire to a St. Paul school during rioting in the Twin Cities last summer have been caught hiding out in Mexico and brought back to the United States, federal authorities say. Jose A. Felan Jr. and Mena Dyaha Yousif, both of Rochester, appeared Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego on charges related to the torching of two stores and Gordon Parks High School on University Avenue on May 28 during the unrest days after the death of George Floyd while in police custody in south Minneapolis. Felan, 34, and Yousif, 22,
President Trump was invited to speak at the annual CPAC Conference next week in Orlando. This would be Trump’s first major speech since leaving office in January after Republicans refused to challenge alleged voter fraud in the 2020 elections. American Lookout reported: Donald Trump has been invited to speak at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) next week.He has spoken at the event several times over the years so it wouldn’t be surprising if he decided to do it again this year.
Did you know that you can see The Great Wall of China from outer space? Is that not absolutely incredible? I heard this cool little fact from a friend some time ago and began telling everyone I knew about this cool trivia nugget.(snip)
I mean, it would be incredible, if it were true. You see, it is not true—not even a little. NASA and multiple individual astronauts have debunked this myth. Yet much of the general public believes it to be a fact, as NASA points out.
But why? The narrative. That is why. There is nothing more powerful (and destructive) in today’s world than the narrative.
You’ve heard the expression that the coverup is worse than the crime? Well, in the case of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), the opposite might be true.
Cuomo is under bipartisan fire after an aide admitted that his administration deliberately delayed releasing information showing the true extent of covid-19 deaths in New York nursing homes, out of fears, according to the aide, that the information “was going to be used against us.”
Stonewalling the Justice Department is bad enough, but Cuomo did something even worse: His administration provided inaccurate data to public health officials in real time, at the beginning of the crisis,
Israel is cautioning the Biden administration against rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, just one day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was prepared to restart negotiations with an eye toward reviving an international commitment that the Trump administration abandoned three years ago.
“Israel believes that going back to the old nuclear agreement will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal. We remain committed to preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the announcement during a video meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain, France, and Germany, known as the E3, saying the U.S. will return
Minnesota Nasty
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Crime, homeless encampments, riots, crime, loopy left-wing government, crime, litter, violent protests, imperious left-wing activists seeing off mainstream liberal Democrats, boarded-up shops downtown, a vicious social-media-driven politics of personal destruction, crime, crime, and crime, to say nothing of the crime — today’s Minneapolis is where Minnesota Nice turns into Minnesota Nasty.
Let’s talk about the crime first. Everybody does.
Cops on the front lines of a spike in subway crime are taking a beating, NYPD Transit Chief Kathleen O’Reilly said Thursday. The NYPD reported 42 felony assaults in the subway throughout January—and 15 of the victims were police officers. That’s three times the number of subway cops who were assaulted in January 2019, O’Reilly said.(Snip) O’Reilly said the bulk of the recent cop assaults happened while officers attempted to make arrests. She said another attack earlier this week highlighted the problems underground. “On Tuesday, two of my officers were spat on, punched and kicked when they confronted a man smoking
Pharma honchos cashed out nearly half a billion dollars in stock as their companies raced to develop life-saving coronavirus vaccines, a new report says.
Executives and directors at 13 firms working on vaccines — including Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax — collectively sold more than 8.5 million shares worth about $496 million last year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The pace of those sales nearly doubled from 2019, when insiders at the same companies dumped 4.7 million shares worth roughly $132 million, the paper reported Wednesday,
This week our neighbors to the north could soon see their right to own firearms greatly reduced, as Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called upon Canada’s federal government to launch a long-promised buyback program for “assault-style” firearms including AR-15s.
The buyback program is just one part of a suite of new gun control measures that were promised by federal Liberals in the 2019 campaign. Under the plan, 1,500 different types of firearms could fall under the classification of “assault-style” even as the term is not a legal classification. Already fully-automatic weapons, as well as high-capacity magazines, are banned in Canada.
Rush Limbaugh, a longtime friend of The Heritage Foundation, was the great popularizer of conservative ideas. (Snip) He loved to mock the hypocrisies of the left, like the moralizing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the “Hero of Chappaquiddick,” who savaged Supreme Court Justice nominee Robert Bork on the Senate floor, where he couldn’t be sued for libel. Rush appealed to conservatives of all kinds. When The Heritage Foundation published Bill Bennett’s monograph “The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators,” Rush made it a bestseller with one broadcast—73,000 people contacted Heritage for a copy.
His promotion of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” helped Republicans to gain their first majority in the House of
America said goodbye Wednesday to conservative talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, who revolutionized talk radio, will be remembered for his intellect, sense of humor, and bold rhetoric.
Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, was good friends with Limbaugh. Bozell joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share stories about how the talk show host often frustrated those on the left and challenged conservatives to stand firm in their beliefs. (Snip) But the common theme is the man was brilliant. The man had an understanding of the world. He was principled and he was also a genuinely nice man.
You do not defend free speech by demanding it for yourself but by demanding it for others, especially when you reprehend the use to which they put it or what they say. Freedom to agree with yourself is no freedom at all and inevitably ends in tyranny.
(Snip) Freedom of opinion and expression has long been in retreat in Britain, but even by declining standards of such freedom the arrest of a 35 year-old man called Joseph Kelly in Glasgow represents a nadir—for the moment, that is. Kelly was charged with Orwellian sounding “communication offences” for having posted an offensive tweet shortly after a man called captain Tom Moore had died,
President Donald Trump turned down his former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley after she requested a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a report.
Politico’s Playbook reported details of the meeting request, citing a “source familiar” with the incident.
Haley criticized Trump extensively in a Politico magazine article, even suggesting that his political relevance was over.
“I don’t think he’s going to be in the picture. I don’t think he can. He’s fallen so far,” she said. “We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him.”
FEMA has delivered only 60 generators to assist Texas residents, even though hundreds of thousands remain without power for the sixth day in a row.
President Joe Biden’s homeland security advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall said Thursday that FEMA had sent 60 generators to assist Texas localities without power.
“Specifically, in Texas [FEMA] has made 60 generators and fuel available to support critical sites like hospitals and water facilities,” Sherwood-Randall said during the White House press briefing, even as she acknowledged that 600,000 people in the state of Texas remain without power.
Earlier in the week, as many as eight million residents in the south-central part of the country
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My father, a journalist named Boris Shcharansky, was born in 1904 in Odessa, the cultural and economic center of the Pale of Settlement, where the Russian empire stuck most Jews. He studied in the Jewish Commercial Gymnasium, because most other gymnasiums accepted very few Jews, if any. By the time he was 16, he had already lived through the Czarist Regime with its anti-Semitic restrictions, the “February” Socialist Revolution, the “October” Bolshevik Revolution, and the years of civil war when power in Odessa seesawed back and forth from faction to faction, as hunger, pogroms, and destruction decimated the population.
When the Soviets finally emerged from the chaos, therefore,
An elderly veteran in South Carolina intervened to save his wife by beating an alleged armed intruder to death mid-afternoon on Monday in Aiken, South Carolina.
FOX57 reported 82-year-old Herbert Parrish killed the alleged intruder to protect 79-year-old Lois Parrish.
Lois allegedly heard a knock at the door and answered, only to have the suspect ask if she had seen his dog. When she said she had not, the suspect, 61-year-old Harold Runnels, allegedly pushed his way inside.
Runnels allegedly pulled a knife once inside, so Herbert grabbed a shotgun for self-defense.
“I felt, we’re gone,” Herbert said. “He’s going to kill us and take what he can take.”
Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans for a 9/11-style commission to “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex.” Will that investigation include the media’s role in peddling flagrant falsehoods about what actually happened that day?
Look up any story about the storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, and you will find it described as a “deadly riot” that killed five people.
Worse still, one of the deaths was that a police officer who – the story goes – was killed by
Biden Reiterates Support For Texas
In Call With Gov. Abbott Over
Winter Storm Crisis, White House Says replies
In Call With Gov. Abbott Over
Winter Storm Crisis, White House Says replies
President Biden spoke to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday about the ongoing winter storm crisis that left millions without power for days.
Abbott in an earlier news conference said he would ask Biden to declare a major disaster declaration to help residents whose homes have been damaged by the deadly Arctic storm that has left dozens dead in the state, according to KSAT-TV in San Antonio.
The governor called on state lawmakers to mandate the winterization of power generators and for the modernization of the grid, KSAT reported.
Former CIA Director, Critics Slam Biden
Over Move To Pursue Iran On
Nuclear Deal: ‘Absolutely Chokes’ replies
Over Move To Pursue Iran On
Nuclear Deal: ‘Absolutely Chokes’ replies
Top former U.S. officials and national security experts slammed Democrat President Joe Biden late on Thursday following his administration signaling that it was willing to re-enter talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, to pursue a nuclear deal.State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Biden administration would “accept an invitation from the European Union High Representative to attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran to discuss a diplomatic way forward on Iran’s nuclear program.”The Washington Free Beacon reported that Iran has increasingly acted aggressively with its nuclear program,
The late Rush Limbaugh, a legendary conservative radio host who pioneered a format that’s become a staple in conservatism, was more than just the voice of American conservatism — he was also a “gentle giant” with a heart of gold.His critics in the Democrat Party and the Democrat-aligned media would disagree, of course, but they never knew actually knew the man. They only knew the “evil” caricature of him that they’d invented in their creative minds. Those who actually knew Limbaugh, on the other hand, have had nothing but positive stories to share about how he’d treated them and others.Take country music singer-songwriter John Rich:
The Conservative Action Project, a coalition of conservative groups and leaders, released a memorandum entitled: “Neera Tanden is Unfit to Lead the Office of Management and Budget.”The coalition hopes to disseminate the memo across social media and other platforms to put pressure on Senators to oppose President Joe Biden nominating Tanden, who has a far-left policy record, including during her tenure as president of the left-wing Center for American Progress.The memo stated: Conservatives strongly oppose the confirmation of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It is critical that the OMB director lead the agency with sound judgment,
Six Capitol Police officers have been suspended and 29 others are currently under investigation for their conduct during the violent insurrection in Washington DC on January 6, officials have announced. The suspensions and investigations come as part of an internal probe at the Capitol Police Department, under the direction of Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman. Among those suspended is a cop who was filmed posing for selfies with rioters inside the Capitol, Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio, previously confirmed.
The two men came from extremely modest means, one even more than the other. Primarily because each understood the rare power of self-education and the gift of books, both went on to have lives of remarkable celebrity, accomplishing extraordinary things for our nation.(Snip)In the presidential election of 1860, as the Democratic Party was famously pro-slavery, Douglass publicly endorsed the Republican candidate. This candidate, of course, was Abraham Lincoln, who won the White House with less than 40 percent of the popular vote, but successfully earned the majority of Electoral College votes. Writing a month after Lincoln’s election in 1860, Douglass half-heartedly celebrated the would-be Great Emancipator’s victory:
Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would prevent former President Donald Trump from having his name displayed on federal projects, buildings, statues, lands, or other type of commemoration.(Snip) The bill specifically prevents federal funds from being used to “create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives,” including “any highway, park, subway, Federal building, military installation, street, or other Federal property.” The bill also prevents Trump from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery.