Posts on Friday, April 23, 2021
Former HUD Secretary Ben Carson is calling for a “real, open” investigation of the 2020 presidential election.During an interview on Fox News, Carson told host Neil Cavuto that he agrees that Donald Trump “was robbed” of an election victory.“I think it’s certainly worthy of investigation,” Carson said.Carson voiced his full support for an open investigation into “credible” evidence and claims “so we can put it to rest once and for all.”“What disturbs me is when people say, ‘You can’t even talk about that.’ It’s like you stole the cookies from the cookie jar and you said,
The White House announced Friday that President Biden will make his first foreign trip in June with stops in the UK and Belgium.Biden has avoided travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite being vaccinated, but will make the trip to participate in annual G7 and NATO summits.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, “This trip will highlight his commitment to restoring our alliances, revitalizing the trans-Atlantic relationship, and working in close cooperation with our allies and multilateral partners to address global challenges and better secure America’s interests.”The G7 summit in Cornwall, England,
Published with permission from Ken Eyring at Granite Grok. -Many know, I have been actively involved with a State Senator and others over the past few months – pushing for a forensic audit of Windham’s voting machines and ballots from the November 3, 2020 general election. A law mandating the forensic audit was passed on April 12th. Part of my support for the Bill included keeping the public aware, and asking them to respectfully submit their thoughts to the appropriate government officials. Their responses have been overwhelming. It is the civic duty of every citizen to get involved with our government –
Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t been to the border to address a crisis she was tasked to help fix—but a children’s book she wrote is waiting there for young migrants who are being welcomed into the country.
Unaccompanied migrant kids brought from the U.S.-Mexico border to a new shelter in Long Beach, Calif., will be given a copy of her 2019 children’s book, “Superheroes are Everywhere,” in their welcome kits.It’s just the latest open-arms gesture by the Biden administration, whose mixed messaging regarding the border and immigration has been credited with the surge from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.
An election audit of the 2020 ballots from Arizona's largest county -- one demanded by Republican state senators, overseen by a purveyor of election conspiracies and live streamed by a pro-Trump television network -- kicked off on Friday.Earlier in the week, Maricopa County handed nearly 2.1 million ballots and nearly 400 tabulation machines over to the state Senate after Republican lawmakers subpoenaed the materials and a judge ruled county officials had to comply. In a last-ditch effort to block the controversial audit, the Arizona Democratic Party and the lone Democrat serving on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which oversees elections, sued to halt the count Thursday evening.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has said Derek Chauvin's conviction was a 'victory in accountability' but George Floyd's murder and the cop killing of Ma'Khia Bryant prove the criminal justice system is 'broken' and should be abolished. Cullors, who set up BLM with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi back in 2013, posted a video on Instagram Thursday where she told her 371,000 followers that now was the time to 'fight for more' and 'get us closer to a place where there are no jails or prisons or surveillance' in America. Chauvin was found guilty of all charges Tuesday in the murder of Floyd,
The FBI on Friday finally released the requested documents on murdered DNC operative Seth Rich. For years the FBI denied there were any documents on Seth Rich’s unsolved murder. We caught them in this lie. (Snip) And now they release the documents but they are highly redacted. The FBI cannot be trusted. Today they finally released the documents to Attorney Ty Clevenger. We posted the documents here at The Gateway Pundit after Clevenger’s website crashed. As you can see, the FBI redacted most of the documents. (Documents)
The First TV host Jesse Kelly said during his program Thursday evening that American “Marxists” have glommed on to the Black Lives Matter movement and will ride it to perpetual power after other leftist causes, including environmentalism and feminism, have failed to produce a similar result.During the segment, Kelly noted that the BLM movement originated in the wake of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012. Within a month of the shooting, then-President Barack Obama appeared to politicize it when he said during a press conference, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.
New video and images show groups of migrants being taken from an Arizona Holiday Inn that has been converted into a shelter and being dropped off at an airport. The footage shared with DailyMail.com by Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs purportedly shows children and adults who have recently crossed the border getting onto buses at the hotel in Chandler en route to catch flights. The hotel is one of seven Immigration and Customs Enforcement have taken over as part of an $86.9million to house 1,200 migrants until September to ease the overflowing detention facilities.(Snip)As part of the $86.9million contract with the non-profit division of Endeavors,
A group almost 40 Democratic lawmakers are asking President Joe Biden to overhaul the unemployment system by permanently enacting some pandemic-relief measures, such as allowing gig-economy workers to continue collecting jobless benefits. In a letter sent Friday to Mr. Biden, the lawmakers argue that traditional jobless benefits fail to reflect the realities of the modern workforce, as well as providing far too little aid for families when people lose their jobs. The signers include Senator Bernie Sanders, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and Representative Adam Schiff. The appeal comes a year after the pandemic caused U.S. unemployment to surge
Professors Martin Bazant and John Bush from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology say the 'six foot rule' that encourages people to socially distance in public has no solid basis in science. They explained that the risk of being exposed to the coronavirus indoors is the same whether people are six feet or 60 feet apart, and that this risk is low in well-ventilated spaces. Bazant and Bush developed a model to calculate indoor exposure risk based on time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, immunizations, respiratory activity, variants and mask use.
The team says the six-foot rule 'has no physical basis'
It was probably the Rev Al Sharpton who put it best. Who did the police think they were dealing with – some kid with an air freshener? Well, they were wrong, he said. Duante Wright was a prince, the prince of Brooklyn Center. He added: “Minneapolis is stopped today to honour the prince of Brooklyn Center.” On Thursday, as the family of the 20-year-old man shot dead 10 days ago by police held a funeral service, they sought to highlight the different strands of a life cut woefully short – his love of basketball, his position as a beloved sibling
Former Coca-Cola Employee Convicted
of Stealing $120 Million Worth of Trade
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of Stealing $120 Million Worth of Trade
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A Chinese-born American chemist was found guilty on April 22 for her role in a scheme to steal trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million from American companies for the purpose of setting up a Chinese company that would manufacture the product for the global market.
After a 12-day trial, 59-year-old You Xiaorong—also known as Shannon You—of Lansing, Michigan, was convicted of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets, economic espionage, and wire fraud, (Snip)
While working at two U.S. companies—Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, and Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee—she stole trade secrets related to BPA-free (bisphenol-A) coating technology,
A State Department cable reviewed by The New York Times says U.S. embassies and consulates may now fly LGBTQ pride flags. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken authorized the move for diplomats for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17. Diplomats may also continue the practice in June during Pride Month and when “appropriate in light of local conditions.” A State Department official confirmed the authorization with the newspaper Friday. Requests to implement the flying of LGBTQ pride flags on the same poles as American flags were denied during the Trump administration.(Snip)“As a matter of policy, the United States does not advocate
A major political dispute over the results of last year's presidential election in Maricopa County is developing, but, for now, the audit sponsored by the Arizona State Senate Republicans will continue. A Maricopa County judge ordered a pause after state Democrats filed a lawsuit to block the audit. The pause would have been from 5 p.m. Friday until noon Monday, but the Arizona Democratic Party will not post the $1 million bond as requested by the judge. In a statement, party officials said in part "the fact of the matter is that no one knows the actual cost of this sham audit
As I wrote in a preceding essay, the First Amendment was written to limit the government’s power. In the 18th century, only the state was conceived as possibly wielding the power to keep free people from speaking their minds. Thus, if maintaining a free people requires free speech, it followed that the government must be kept from controlling speech. For a long time, no more was necessary, but that would change.As the United States grew in population and prosperity, there was very little agitation against business. There did not need to be. Most businesses were small affairs, owned by one man or one family, employing a handful of workers.
President Biden appeared to send a very mixed message Friday, saying he will mark his 100th day in office with a Georgia “drive-in rally” to promote his policy agenda—including phasing out fossil fuels. Pro-Biden car owners will spew greenhouse gases in the parking lot of a yet-to-be-named venue in the Atlanta metro area, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the visit at her daily briefing Friday.(Snip) Biden carried Georgia in November by fewer than 12,000 votes and Democrats narrowly won a pair of Senate runoff races in January,
Sen. Tim Scott was tapped to offer the Republican response to President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced on Thursday.Scott, of South Carolina, the only black Republican in the upper chamber, has been seen as a rising star in the party and potential contender to run for the GOP presidential nomination for 2024.The South Carolina Republican is looking forward to discussing the party’s “optimistic vision” for the future Wednesday night. “We face serious challenges on multiple fronts, but I am as confident as I have ever been in the promise and potential of America.
Whoever is writing Joe Biden’s material doesn’t appear to have a working knowledge of why it is that Americans celebrate the Fourth Of July, or as it is otherwise known Independence Day.On Wednesday, the nation’s 46th president reiterated his tired threat: If people don’t march down to their local vaccination site and roll up their sleeves, that they would not be able to celebrate July 4th. Even to get together in “small gatherings” to commemorate the day when our forefathers broke free of the tyranny of a king.Biden’s mass vaccination push has gotten stuck in the mud now that those who were eager to take “the jab” have done so
The Washington Post's resident fact checker Glenn Kessler dug into the ancestral background of Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who has been tapped to give the GOP response to President Biden's State of the Union address next week. Scott, who is an outspoken conservative, has written and spoke about his family's background and his ancestors' work in cotton fields and agriculture. For Kessler, Scott's placement as a Republican contender to Biden's message means that his ancestry is open for debate. [Snip] The Washington Post believes itself to be so woke that white fact checker Kessler can undermine a black man's family history for Democrat political gain.
Group committed eight carjackings
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The same group committed eight carjackings in the city’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood and surrounding areas during a three-day span, according to Cleveland police. The group includes three or four armed robbers, who police have not yet identified. No arrests have been made.
Police on Tuesday released photos of the cars — a white SUV and a gray Mazda — used in the carjackings in the hopes the public would help identify the suspects.
A group of Republican senators on Thursday spoke in front of the Supreme Court in opposition to court-packing, a response to legislation Democrats introduced at a press conference last week to do just that.
Sens. Ted Cruz., R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., railed against court-packing as an effort to “rig” the Supreme Court and pleaded with President Biden to buck “crazies” in his party who support the idea.
“Packing the court and tearing down the institutions that protect our rights is fundamentally wrong,” Cruz said. He said the court-packing plan would “destroy judicial independence.”
Many, particularly those on the right, worry the United States is turning into China, but we are a Western nation coming out of a (mostly) Western tradition.
I believe we should be as much concerned, if not more, that we are beginning to resemble East Germany with its State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst), better known as the Stasi.(Snip)I was reminded of this Zersetzung and its psychological destruction of dissidents—soon we may all be classified that way, if not already—by a photo I received this morning from a (necessarily anonymous) friend who works at the Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, among the most prestigious hospitals in the country.
Protesters shouting "Black Lives Matter" stormed the Oklahoma Capitol this week and there doesn't seem to be much outrage or mass coverage from the mainstream media. Nothing like what we saw on January 6 when people called Trump supporters insurrectionists.
Aren't these protesters doing something similar? Isn't it an insurrection when BLM storms a Capitol, or does that not fit in the liberal mainstream media's narrative.
Fox News covered it in detail, providing information as to why the protesters stormed the Capitol and a confrontation that broke out having two men face-to-face.
Demonstrators chanting "Black Lives Matter" stormed the Oklahoma Capitol on Wednesday, forcing the state House of Representatives into lockdown...
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn was fined $5,000 Friday for bypassing the metal detectors before walking on the floor.
The House Ethics committee released a statement, saying Clyburn had been fined and that he has appealed the fine. The House installed magnetometers in early January and require all members of Congress to walk through them before entering the chamber after rioters supporting Trump stormed the U.S. capitol, committing acts of vandalism and violence.
Clyburn denied breaking House rules to CNN, saying: “I have no idea,” adding: “It’s just somebody on the other side trying to cause mischief.”
For a first-time offense, the fine is $5,000, a second-time offense is $10,000.
Small businesses in Illinois, where taxes are among the highest in the nation, stand to benefit from a state senator’s legislation to alter tax deductions.
The legislation passed the Senate on Thursday.
The bill utilizes an IRS-approved method to allow pass-through entities to bypass the $10,000 cap on the State and Local Tax, or SALT, deduction.
The sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Win Stoller, R-Germantown Hills, said the legislation has the potential to help up to 400,000 Illinois business owners save thousands of dollars annually on their federal tax filings.
Black business owners at George Floyd
Square pleading for help as crime spikes
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Square pleading for help as crime spikes
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Black-owned businesses surrounding the area where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last year say they are in desperate need of help from police.
Black merchants operating on the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, known as George Floyd Square, are struggling to stay open due to rampant crime and say police have blocked off the intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone, according to the New York Post.
“The city left me in danger,” the owner of Smoke in the Pit said Thursday, two days after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder for Floyd’s death. “They locked us up on here and left us behind.”
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Thursday pointed to stress-induced drug abuse during the pandemic as the impetus to get moving on her plan to wipe clean the record of convicted marijuana dealers and expunge offenses for heroin and cocaine possession.
“Especially in this last year with COVID — overdose deaths were at a high. Those people weren’t criminals. They were people who were suffering. Whether that was cocaine or heroin or Fentanyl or prescription drugs, I’m not making value judgements on which person used what type of drug to say that’s a disorder,” Foxx told the Sun-Times.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 15-year-old male is dead and a 15-year-old suspect is in custody after the two teens exchanged gunfire, according to reports.
Trevon Dickson was taken to Mount Carmel East Hospital after the shooting Tuesday afternoon but died of his wounds, police tell WBNS Channel 10. Police say Dickson was shot by the suspect, but was able to return fire before collapsing, wounding the suspect.The teen suspect was driven to Nationwide Children’s Hospital for treatment, ABC 6 reports. He was arrested and charged with murder after being treated.
CINCINNATI, Ohio — A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder after police say she stabbed another 13-year-old to death during a fight.
WLWT Channel 5 reports the teen suspect wept Wednesday during her first court appearance. She is accused of killing Nyaira Givens, 13, on Monday, and is facing two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault, Fox 19 reports.
Police tell the Cincinnati Enquirer that officers were called to a residence in the Winton Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati just after 9 p.m. Monday. The stabbing occurred in a green space between two homes, the Enquirer reports.
Heated argument erupts after Rep. Mondaire
Jones calls GOP objections to DC statehood
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Jones calls GOP objections to DC statehood
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GOP House members on Thursday erupted in heated opposition after Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) condemned their objections to Washington, D.C., statehood as “racist trash” during a speech on the chamber floor.“I have had enough of my colleagues’ racist insinuations that somehow the people of Washington D.C. are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy,” Jones, a progressive first-term lawmaker, said. (Tweet/Video) His comments triggered an uproar from Republicans on the floor.“The truth is there is no good faith argument for disenfranchising 700,000 people, most of whom are people of color,” Jones continued
When President Biden delivers an address to a joint session of Congress next week, only about 200 people will be allowed into the chamber and no House members or senators will be allowed to bring guests.
There will be no first lady’s box as is normally tradition for the annual presidential address to Congress. Most White House staffers are also expected to watch the event remotely.
The rules are being put in place for health and safety reasons as the United States continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.
Interesting notation from Politico regarding the move of Rod Rosenstein’s sister, Nancy Messonnier, out of the CDC executive management coordinating the COVID-19 response. Messonnier made a big splash in February 2020 when she proclaimed COVID was a looming catastrophe about to overwhelm the nation.
WASHINGTON DC – CDC respiratory disease chief Nancy Messonnier has been reassigned from her position heading the agency’s Covid-19 vaccine task force, according to three people familiar with the move.
Messonnier is being absorbed into an incident management response team headed by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. But the situation remains fluid as CDC restructures teams under Walensky’s leadership.
President Biden on Friday said people who lose jobs in the fossil fuel industry as a result of environmental reforms must be provided new job opportunities “in the places where they live.” Biden claimed in a speech at the White House that phasing out coal, gas and oil doesn’t require economic devastation in current energy-producing regions. “As we transition to a clean energy future, we must ensure that workers who have thrived in yesterday’s and today’s industries have as bright a tomorrow in the new industries as well as in the places where they live and the communities they have built,” Biden told
Following the recent shooting deaths of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, the disproportionate loudmouths in Congress, commonly referred to as “the Squad” repeated their oft-stated absurdity that police are killing unarmed black men and that America would be better off without them.
It’s important to note that none of them offered to give up their own police protections made available to them at the Capitol.
The woke mobs on social media immediately began to echo their calls anew as well. Within seconds “justice for Wright/Toledo” began to flood uninformed purveyors on Twitter and Instagram.
Two young Jewish boys who narrowly escaped the Nazi gas chambers by being hidden in a Belgian hospital have met again for the first time in 76 years in an emotional Zoom reunion.Jacques Weisser and Bill Frankenstein, now both 79, were among only 13 of 39 Jewish children from an orphanage in Antwerp to escape the Holocaust and survive the war.Though they never knew each other until now, their remarkable story was immortalised on a handful of photographs taken in 1944 after Belgium was liberated, but which neither could remember being taken.Their lives followed different, yet oddly similar paths; Bill in the US and Jacques, eventually, in the UK.
As we reported Wednesday, Alan Dershowitz is working with Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, as a legal advisor to him and his team in his fight against Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion had sued him for $1.3 billion for defamation. MyPillow is fighting back with a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Dominion, claiming that as “an agent of the government” (working under contract to the government to tabulate elections), Dominion is infringing on Lindell’s First Amendment rights when it tries to shut him up. “This may be one of the most critical First Amendment cases in the history of the United States,” Lindell said Monday.
Dominion Is the Government for the Purposes of
President Joe Biden's administration will allow US embassies around the world to fly the gay Pride flag on the same flagpole as the American flag, reversing a Trump-era policy.In 2019, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blocked embassy requests to fly the symbol of support for LBGTQ people on the same pole as the Stars and Stripes.But now Biden's Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has given approval to fly the flag at diplomatic outposts around the world, according to a confidential cable reviewed by Foreign Policy magazine.The move comes before May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, and before June, which many nations recognize as Gay Pride month.
Just before the Arizona Senate Republicans' hand count of all Maricopa County ballots cast in the November presidential election begins, Democrats are suing to try to stop it.
The Arizona Democratic Party and Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday saying that the audit is unlawful and asking a judge to stop it from proceeding.
The complaint alleges the Senate's audit, which is set to begin Friday, is violating state election law in numerous ways, including by not setting up proper security to protect ballots, voting machines and voter information.
This is harmful, they write, because their private information "will be placed
A group of Senate Republicans and Democrats met privately this week to discuss striking a deal on immigration – mainly on providing amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) led a meeting with 12 other Senate Republicans and Democrats to explore the possibility of passing an amnesty to give legal status to 3.5 million enrolled and eligible DACA illegal aliens.
The Biden Department of Education has quietly proposed a new rule prioritizing the use of federal tax dollars for K-12 schools that replace traditional education with “culturally responsive teaching and learning” – more commonly referred to as critical race theory. This is the most significant move by the federal government to redefine the nature of state-funded public schools in U.S. history.
Although the current effort to push public schools receiving federal funding to adopt a detailed indoctrination agenda may feel new and overwhelming for parents, the truth is that the Biden attempt is simply the last phase in a decades-
The family of 16-year old Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black girl fatally shot by a Columbus Police officer Tuesday, reflected on her life on Thursday, stating that Bryant was “an all-around good person” in an interview with The Washington Post. (Snip) “M’Khia was just an all-around good person,” Don Bryant added. “She laughed a lot,” Ma’Khia’s great-grandmother Ila Bryant said, adding that she excelled in school. “Intellectually, she was very intelligent,” Ila Bryant said, according to The Post. Body camera footage released Tuesday showed an officer, identified as Columbus Police Officer Nicholas Reardon, approaching an altercation that involved Bryant. Soon after
It’s no secret that Jim Acosta was a horrible journalist, but he might be an even worse TV anchor.According to new analysis from Fox News, Acosta appears to be the sole reason that the weekend edition of “CNN Newsroom” is falling in the ratings department.Just three weeks into Acosta’s reign as news anchor, ratings have fallen a whopping 41%.Here’s more from Fox News:
“The Acosta-anchored Saturday programs have averaged 796,000 viewers since the former White House correspondent took over on April 3. Over the first three months of 2021, CNN averaged 1.141 million viewers on Saturdays during the same time slot, indicating a 30% drop in viewership
Donald Trump has returned to Hollywood — at least on the Walk of Fame.The former president’s star is back on the fabled strip in Los Angeles months after it was destroyed for a third time — by a man dressed as the Incredible Hulk. Trump’s newest star, celebrating his work on TV’s “The Apprentice,” was unveiled Wednesday, having been covered in plywood and cones since the latest attack in October. It was smashed by a Hulk cosplayer using a pickax, police had told the Los Angeles Times.It was the third time the star — awarded in 2007 — had been destroyed during Trump’s presidency,
New video, apparently from a surveillance camera across the street, conclusively justified the shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. A tweet from Matt Walsh has already garnered well over a million views, with the video and audio revealing the murderous intent and the heroic rescue.
In new video, Makhia Bryant can be heard screaming “I’m gonna stab the f**k out of you, b**ch,” while lunging at two unarmed people who were posing no imminent physical threat to her (snip) Yet, the left is trying to make her into a sainted martyr
Humor has always been one of the first targets of a dictatorship. It is no surprise that in America, comedians can no longer function because of rampant political correctness. Thus, according to Mel Brooks, "we have become stupidly politically correct, which is the death of comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks." Comedian Gilbert Gottfried says: Imagine if the most brilliant comedians in history were working today. They'd never stop apologizing. Charlie Chaplin would have to apologize to all the homeless people he belittled with his Little Tramp character.
John Kerry said earlier this month that we’ve reached “the last best opportunity we have to get real and serious” about global warming. What’s the difference between him and a loon walking down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue wearing one of those sandwich boards proclaiming the end of the world is nigh? We’re struggling to see any.
Kerry, the Biden administration’s special presidential envoy for climate – an office that amounts to much less than a bucket of warm spit – is part of a chorus of fearmongering that goes back more than three decades.
“In 1989 the United Nations gave us 10 years
A year after 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen was reported missing from Fort Hood in Texas, her family appealed to President Biden on Thursday to make good on his campaign promises by joining in their fight to end sexual violence in the military and backing a newly introduced bill named for the slain soldier.
Natalie Khawam, an attorney representing the family, contrasted how Guillen’s case and that of George Floyd were handled after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted this week for the murder and manslaughter of Floyd last May.
Americans are proud of their right to property, not enjoyed by people in many democracies. As the Cato Institute puts it, our founding fathers understood that private property is the foundation of prosperity and freedom. But California's 46-year-old Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA) violates that constitutional principle, and it even fails to protect farm workers. It allows union officials and pickets to invade farms — for three hours every day, for 120 days a year — and harangue, coerce, and arm-twist farm workers into joining the union and engaging in collective bargaining with growers even when they're happy with their working conditions and pay.
Tuesday afternoon the Democrats and the Left at large got exactly what they said they wanted from the trial of Derek Chauvin. The jury found him guilty of all three counts — second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter — with which he had been charged in the death of George Floyd. Yet prominent Democrats who commented on the verdict seemed slightly bewildered and disappointed. Their collective response was captured in this statement from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison: “I would not call today’s verdict justice, because justice implies restoration.” This is an odd assertion coming from the man who orchestrated Chauvin’s prosecution and secured an unequivocal conviction.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has enough rage inside her to fuel a dozen BLM/Antifa "peaceful protests," is once again spewing her venom at Congress, this time during an Earth Day hearing on subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. She spoke remotely Thursday to the House Oversight Committee, according to USA Today.
"How long do you honestly believe that people in power like you will get away with it?" Saint Greta hissed. "How long do you think that you can continue to ignore the climate crisis, the global aspect of equity and historic emissions without being held accountable?"
Ex-Virginia Tech soccer star sues coach,
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claims he forced her off team because
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Kiersten Hening, a former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player, is suing her former coach after she was allegedly benched and forced off the team because she didn’t want to kneel during a pregame demonstration last September.
Hening, 21, was a midfielder/defender for the Hokies from 2018 to 2020. In a federal lawsuit filed last month, Hening said that her former coach, Charles Adair, wasn’t a fan of her political views. According to the documents obtained by TMZ Sports, Hening said during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement last summer, she often had a difference of opinion from her teammates on social justice topics.
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would in the school system.
Loudoun County school board member Ian Serotkin posted about the change via Facebook on Tuesday. According to Serotkin, he learned of the change the night prior during a briefing from staff on the Virginia Mathematics Pathway Initiative (VMPI).
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman suggested on Thursday that the violence that has plagued cities over the past year was a figment of Republicans' imagination.
Krugman knocked Republicans on Twitter for "only" being concerned about illegal immigration and the deficit in comparison to Democrats, who according to a Pew study are overwhelmingly concerned about gun violence, racism, the coronavirus, climate change, affordable healthcare, and economic inequality.
"You might think that it would be hard to obsess over the deficit when it was actually Trump who blew the deficit up, to zero complaints from his party," Krugman tweeted.
President Joe Biden's labor arbiter threw out hundreds of votes from workers attempting to cut ties with a Delaware union.The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership. The agency said in a 3-1 ruling released Wednesday that a provision prohibiting workers from leaving a union for a set time period after a contract is signed allowed the board to ignore the workers' March 2020 vote. The decision reversed a regional NLRB director who had initially ruled in the workers' favor.Oscar Cruz Sosa, the employee who led the charge to hold the election, ripped union leadership
On Tuesday, a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in a case that had sparked nationwide riots: The death of George Floyd.During the course of the trial, Judge Peter Cahill mentioned that the court case was getting dangerously close to mistrial. A new interview with an alternate juror named Lisa Christensen, who lives in Brooklyn Center, provides new insight into the courtroom dynamics.“I just had a fascinating sit-down interview with one of the alternate jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial,” Kare 11 reporter Lou Raguse said Thursday on Twitter.“Lisa Christensen was the juror who lived in Brooklyn Center. One night she could
Protesters clashed with police in Manhattan on Thursday night after a monument was vandalized by cop-haters in Central Park.Six people were arrested in Columbus Circle near the USS Maine National Monument, which was defaced with anti-police graffiti, cops said.“ACAB,” an acronym for “All Cops are Ba***rds,” and “F–k 12,” which means “F–k the police,” were spray-painted onto the monument.“Stonewall was a riot,” was also written in the pink spray paint.The NYPD condemned the vandalism in a social media post.“We respect everyone’s right to peacefully protest, but vandalism is not part of peaceful protest,”
As Los Angeles is ordered to deal with the nearly 5,000 homeless people living on its 'Skid Row', around 100 will soon be given keys to a small part of the solution: a new studio apartment. The apartments are small—just 380 square feet—but they'll be a marked improvement from the tent encampments that have mushroomed near LA's downtown. A federal judge earlier this week ordered the city to finally to something to house the 4,600 people who are estimated to be living in the area without homes. The first 98 people to soon be formerly homeless are moving into the studio apartments with private kitchens
An unruly crowd entered the US Capitol on Jan. 6, while then-President Donald Trump addressed a rally several blocks away. One member of that crowd, Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman and a veteran, was shot by the Capitol Police. The next day, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died in the hospital.
On Jan. 8, The New York Times reported that Officer Sicknick had died after being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by violent Trump supporters. This story was quickly repeated by numerous other media outlets. Millions believed it.
The story was false.
Sicknick died of two strokes, which occurred many hours after the invasion of the Capitol.
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, lifted his statewide face mask mandate and his limits on business occupancy in early March, Democrats warned that he was inviting a public health disaster. Yet a month and a half later, newly identified coronavirus cases in Texas have fallen by more than 50 percent, and daily deaths have dropped even more.
Meanwhile, states with stricter COVID-19 regulations have seen spikes in daily new cases. This is not the pattern you would expect to see if government-imposed restrictions played a crucial role in curtailing the pandemic, as advocates of those policies assume.
Abbott's critics did not mince words.
On Wednesday, NBA Lakers star LeBron James tweeted something that looked very much like an incitement to murder a police officer. James rushed to conclusions about the shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, a black girl who appears to have been lunging at someone with a deadly knife when the cop shot her. James later took down the tweet, but he claimed that this shooting represents yet more evidence of systemic racism.
President Donald Trump took him to task on Thursday night.
“LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of the NBA, which has just recorded the lowest
While doubling down their support for Officer Nicholas Reardon’s decision to shoot knife-wielding Ma’Khia Bryant during Thursday’s CNN Tonight handoff, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon blasted outlets like NBC who didn’t show the knife in Bryant’s hand while reporting on the shooting. The pair accused such outlets of “journalistic malpractice” because they weren’t being honest (an ironic notion given who was flinging it).
Their knock came as NewsBusters drove part of the Thursday news cycle with a report exposing NBC’s deception against their audience; editing out a key part of the 911 call and not showing the knife
Mott Haven, the Bronx—The NYPD said Thursday they were looking for up to ten individuals after a 14-year-old boy was shot and robbed when the group attacked him on a Bronx street. According to police, it was around 4:30 p.m. last Friday when the large group approached the teen in the vicinity of Morris Avenue and East 140th Street, in the Mott Haven section. The group began physically assaulting the boy before the attack escalated when one of the individuals pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the buttocks, authorities said. One of the attackers then snatched
More than 500 federally funded scientists are under investigation for being compromised by China and other foreign powers, the National Institutes of Health revealed Thursday. The federal health officials told a Senate committee that they are fighting to keep up with large-scale Chinese efforts to corrupt American researchers and steal intellectual property that scientists hope will lead to biomedical advances. NIH has contacted more than 90 institutions about more than 200 scientists they’re concerned about, said Dr. Michael S. Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research.(Snip) China has targeted research throughout the economy from corn growers to cancer researchers.
The U.S. Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of B1-B bombers after finding a problem with the plane's fuel system. That takes out a third of the Air Force's entire fleet of bombers. General Tim Ryan, commander of the Global Strike Command, said that he 'ordered a safety stand-down' on Tuesday. The decision was made after a 'ground emergency' on April 8 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota—one of two bases where the B1-B is currently housed.(Snip) Of the 100 built, the U.S. Air Force decided in 2001 to retire 33, to pay for modernization efforts.