Posts on Monday, April 26, 2021
“The people have spoken,” said former New York City mayor Ed Koch after the Democratic mayoral primary of 1989, “and they must be punished.”
The understandably bitter Koch had just been defeated by David Dinkins and was bidding his farewell to politics. And in fact, the people were punished: the one-term Dinkins, who defeated Rudy Giuliani in the general election that year to become the city’s first black mayor, saw crime soar on his impeccably tailored watch, with murders hitting a high of 2,605 the following year.
Four years later, even the Upper West Side had had enough and called the cops.
Twenty retired French generals have called for military rule if Emmanuel Macron fails to halt the 'disintegration' of the country 'at the hands of Islamists', in an open letter published ahead of next year's presidential election. The open letter, published in Valeurs Actuelles, a right-wing news magazine, claims a military coup might be necessary to stop a 'civil war' in France. The letter has been condemned by Macron's government, who compared it to the failed coup by generals against President de Gaulle 60 years ago. However, far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen hailed the letter, which was signed by 80 other retired officers,
A man struck an NYPD detective over the head with a plastic stick on Monday — in a broad-daylight attack that took place as the officer was investigating another crime, according to police. The uniformed cop was processing the scene of a robbery in Queens at around 11:50 a.m., when he was assaulted, the NYPD said.
Footage shared by the Detectives’ Endowment Association showed the cop standing outside the crime scene and taking notes near some broken glass—when a man holding two long white sticks crept up behind him.(Snip) Akeele Morgan, 25, of the Bronx, was arrested not far from the scene
Charleston, W.Va.— West Virginia Governor Justice is announcing a way to encourage those ages 16 to 35 to get vaccinated from the coronavirus. He discussed it during a press conference Monday afternoon. “We’re going to give every single one of these people, the people that already stepped up, our young people that have already stepped up and been vaccinated, and every single one of our young people, we’re going to give a $100 savings bond to every single one that steps up and takes their vaccines,” said Governor Justice.(Snip) The payments will be retroactive. According to the Governor’s office no specific plans
The Biden administration is refusing to weigh in on the Iranian foreign minister claiming in a leaked recording that former Secretary of State and current Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry told him about secret Israeli operations being carried out in In response, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) called on Kerry to resign during a speech on the Senate floor. It's become clear...that our adversaries, whether Beijing or Iran, like it when John Kerry is in charge of foreign policy and national security. Why? Because they know how to use him to their advantage," Sullivan said.
Propelled by growing voter frustration over California’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a Republican-led drive to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office collected enough voter signatures to qualify for the ballot, state officials reported Monday, triggering for only the second time in state history a rapid-fire campaign to decide whether to oust a sitting governor.
Recall backers submitted more than 1,495,709 verified voter signatures — equal to 12% of all ballots cast in the last gubernatorial election — meeting the minimum threshold to force a special recall election, according to a tally released by Secretary of State Shirley Weber. Barring intervention by the courts, Newsom will face a statewide vote
‘Military-Civil Fusion’ Information Secretly
Removed by the Chinese Regime, Leaked
Documents Shows replies
Removed by the Chinese Regime, Leaked
Documents Shows replies
A series of internal documents responding to a municipal internet censorship authority reveals that information related to the Chinese Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) strategy was removed from a local bureaus’ official websites in June 2018, only months after a trade war had broken out with the United States.
The Epoch Times recently obtained documents from a trusted source issued by various departments in Anshan City of northern Liaoning province reveals the requirement to remove information about MCF on departments’ websites and from official accounts on social media platforms.
However, the MCF strategy is a national-level strategy that the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has emphasized.
More than 20 House Republicans are calling on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to investigate the Hunter Biden for allegedly falsifying information in order to obtain a firearm."I write to ask that you publicly commit to investigate allegations that Hunter Biden falsified information during a background check in order to illegally obtain a firearm should you be confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)," Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) wrote in a letter to Biden’s nominee for ATF Director.
Donald Trump has told associates that he would back a Democratic candidate in Arizona's Senate race if Republican Governor Doug Ducey decided to run, according to a Monday report.
The former president is still holding a grudge against Ducey for refusing to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona as he pushed claims of widespread voter fraud.
Two people familiar with Trump's private conversations told the Daily Beast that the former president would consider traveling to Arizona to campaign for Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.
Both sources, however, said they think Trump wasn't being totally serious.
One said the former president's political operation wouldn't be 'caught dead campaigning to keep the Senate more Democrat[ic].'
Pfizer's Inc experimental oral drug that would be the first specifically designed to stop the novel coronavirus could be available by the end of this year. [SNIP] Known as PF-07321332, the medication would be prescribed to patients at the first sign of infection with COVID-19.
According to The Telegraph, the ongoing trial is split into three phases, running for a total of 145 days, meaning it is set to conclude in mid-July.
The first phase is concluding in May and, if larger trials go well, the drug could be distributed to hospitals and doctors' offices by autumn 2021.
Donald Trump Jr., former President Donald Trump's eldest son, on Monday said he assumes the Lincoln Project has recruited Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney to challenge President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination after the moderate Republican said she's not ruling out a presidential run.On Monday, the New York Post reported that Cheney declined to rule out a potential presidential run. "I'm not ruling anything in or out—ever is a long time," she said. "I think we have a huge number of interesting candidates, but I think that we're going to be in a good position to be able to take the White House."
Shark Tank star Daymond John criticized
for praising Louis Farrakhan's speech at
DMX's funeral replies
for praising Louis Farrakhan's speech at
DMX's funeral replies
Daymond John has been criticized for a tweet praising a speech the controversial religious leader Louis Farrakhan gave at rapper DMX's funeral.
In the now-deleted tweet, the Shark Tank investor said Farrakhan's speech on Sunday, in which he hailed the rapper for his ability to connect with people through his music, was 'powerful'.
'What a powerful speech from Minister Louis Farrakhan for the #dmxfuneral,' John wrote.
'His deep understanding of the Bible and respect for other people's religions was truly inspiring. #RIPDMX'.
Many social media users took exception to the final statement, pointing out that the Nation of Islam leader has a long history of making offensive and controversial remarks.
Chicago - Twitter is refusing to remove or attach a warning to a doctored image that purports to show a Chicago Police Department tweet that states, "We are all Derek Chauvin" – despite that the post is not real and the agency has made several attempts to have it taken down, CPD officials tell Fox News. (Snip) By Saturday, the post had garnered approximately 38,600 retweets and 175,000 likes, according to local news site CWBChicago.
CPD tweeted Saturday night that the department had reported the tweet, and Twitter responded by ruling that the content did not violate the company’s policies and therefore no action would be taken
Starting today across the state of Michigan, two-year-olds at daycare facilities will be required to mask up, thanks to an order from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Kids from ages 2-4 will now be subjected to mask requirements just like the rest of Michigan citizens, according to MDHHS representative Bob Wheaton, who told MLive.com that two-year-olds will be required to wear a mask at a park just like 18-year-old senior in high school.
An arts advocacy group in Charlotte, North Carolina, is facing backlash after it apologized for funding 'white, Western Eurocentric organizations' including the city's symphony, ballet and children's theater.
The Arts & Science Council, which has been a main source of funding for arts and cultural groups in the Charlotte area since 1958, issued the extraordinary apology in a February report examining its funding practices.
The group receives more than $3 million a year directly from the city, along with getting funding from philanthropies. It gave out $4.3 million in grants to 37 arts and culture organizations last year, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki shut down a reporter asking about the leaked audio from the New York Times of John Kerry telling Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about Israel’s covert operations in Syria.So much for transparency! In a recently leaked audio, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said then-Secretary of State John Kerry informed him about Israel’s covert operations in Syria. John Kerry served as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State from 2013 – 2017 and currently serves as Biden’s special climate envoy.
Hundreds of Simon & Schuster employees are demanding the publishing giant not publish any books written by former Trump administration officials. The petition demanding the New York publishing conglomerate to stop treating "the Trump administration as a 'normal' chapter in American history" collected 216 internal signatures, representing approximately 14% of the company's workforce, and support from several thousand nonemployees, according to the Wall Street Journal. The petition singled out a planned two-part autobiography to be authored by former Vice President Mike Pence, which the publisher's employees alleged amounted to support for "racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and violence" in the online petition.
Reports are that the new judge in the Democrats’ latest attempt to prevent the Senate’s audit of the 2020 results was assigned by former Democrat Governor Janet Napolitano. New hearing scheduled for tomorrow.The new judge in the Democrats Maricopa County case where they are again trying to stop any audit by the Senate of the County’s 2020 election results was appointed by Janet Napolitano, the former governor and Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security: (Tweeet) Now according to the attorneys in the case the new judge has set the hearing for Tuesday:
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began over a year ago, one of the primary concerns across the country has been its impact on education. The quality of education for school children being forced to learn from home via on-line learning has been so worrisome, many states have seen a dramatic decrease in public school enrollment as parents opt for private schools instead. In California for instance, public school enrollment this year dropped by over 160,000 compared to the previous trend of approximately 25,000.
Joe Biden is scheduled to issue his new mask-wearing guidelines for Americans this week. Can’t wait. Something else to chuckle over and ignore seeping out of this White House. Here’s my guideline for you, Joe, on wearing masks: Stop it! When you’re on a Zoom call in front of an international audience and their unmasked leaders, lose your mask, Joe. You’re vaccinated and talking to a screen. That’s not
Chennai: Actor Vivekh, who suffered a heart attack on Friday, had a 100% block in his left artery and it may not be related to Covid vaccination, said Dr Raju Sivasamy, vice-president of SIMS hospitals.
Addressing reporters here, Dr Sivasamy said what the 59-year-old actor suffered was a separate cardiac event called “ventricular fibrillation”, resulting in decreased supply of blood to the brain.
“This is actor Vivekh’s first attack. It is a severe one. We have done an angiogram, followed by angioplasty, and have placed a stent. He is presently critical, in the ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) and it may take
WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau released state population totals that determine each state's number of House seats on Monday, with just seven seats moving among 13 states — the smallest shift among the states since the current congressional apportionment model was adopted in the 1940s. Texas was the biggest winner, gaining two House seats to its total. Following the Lone Star State, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Florida and North Carolina each gained one seat. The losses were concentrated in the industrial Midwest, with Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio each losing one seat. Democratic strongholds California and New York each lost a
GOP reps calling on Pelosi to pay
metal detector fine: 'All members must
live under the same rules' replies
metal detector fine: 'All members must
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Republicans on the House Administration Committee are calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to pay the fine for not going through metal detectors to get onto the House floor after her office confirmed that she hadn't used them to access the floor in February. Reps. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., and Bryan Steil, R-Wis., sent a letter to acting House Sergeant-at-Arms Timothy Blodgett requesting he levy fines against the speaker for not following the security protocols all members are required to follow to get to the House floor.
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed in recently leaked audio that John Kerry, when he was serving as Secretary of State during the Obama administration, informed him of more than 200 Israeli operations in Syria. Kerry has previously been accused of colluding with Iranian leaders to undermine the Trump administration. Kerry is now a part of the Biden administration and has a seat on the National Security Council as the special presidential envoy for climate. Kerry shocked Zarif by revealing that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria more than 200 times, according to leaked audio obtained by The New York Times and other outlets.
CAMPUS CAM: New bill could allow
students to RECORD college professors
– and use tapes against them replies
students to RECORD college professors
– and use tapes against them replies
A Florida bill would let students record college professors’ lectures for proof if they suspect they are pushing political bias.
HB233 would allow recordings of lectures for students' "own personal educational use, in connection with a complaint to the public institution of higher education where the recording was made, or as evidence in, or in preparation for, a criminal or civil proceeding." However, that evidence is prohibited from going public without the professor’s consent.
"A recorded lecture may not be published without the consent of the lecturer,” according to the language of the bill, as first reported by Fox News.
Politico Orders Staff to Avoid the Term 'Border
Crisis'...After 'Trump' and 'Crisis' Used Endlessly replies
Crisis'...After 'Trump' and 'Crisis' Used Endlessly replies
Joseph Simonson at the Washington Examiner reported Friday that Politico is the latest news outlet to order its staff not to use the word "crisis" when reporting on the massive influx of illegal immigrants at the southern border.An official at Politico characterized this decision as inspired by an earlier "guidance" memo by the Associated Press. Simonson quoted from an internal Politico memo that mimics the AP warnings: "Avoid referring to the present situation as a crisis, although we may quote others using that language while providing context.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on April 23 vetoed election reform legislation and a measure that would have let more people carry guns.
Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed two bills that would have changed election laws, such as requiring counties to verify signatures on early voting ballots and making it illegal for any person to knowingly alter a postmark on a mail-in ballot.
The bills were House Bill 2183, which the state House passed 80–42 and the state Senate passed 27–11, and House Bill 2332, which the state House passed 83–38 and the state Senate approved 27–11.
The number of people who tuned in to watch the three-hour long 'wokefest' that was the Oscars has hit an all time low with just 9.85 million viewers. The television ratings for the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday night is a 58 percent drop compared to last year's already record-low 23.64 million viewers, according to early Nielsen numbers. The huge drop in ratings for Hollywood's biggest night continues an overall multi-year downward trend for the Academy Awards, which were above 43 million as recently as 2014. It comes after the Grammys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards all experienced more than 50 percent declines
Nashville, TN—Nashville's Community Oversight Board says they will conduct their own investigation into Saturday morning's deadly officer-involved shooting to determine if Metro Police policy and procedures were followed. Metro Police Officer Christopher Royer is currently on administrative assignment after he shot and killed a knife-wielding man on Clarksville Pike Saturday morning. MNPD's Don Aaron said the shooting happened after Officer Royer pulled over a white Mercedes after running a license plate check and discovering the plate was registered to a 1998 green Chevrolet. Aaron said the driver of the Mercedes presented no issues, but "the passenger however, immediately got out of the Mercedes
New York City endured its bloodiest week so far this year, as gun violence continues to soar ahead of what could be another violent summer. NYPD data shows 50 people were shot in 46 separate incidents over a seven-day period ending Sunday evening — a more than 300 percent surge from the same week in 2020. Last year, the city logged 11 shootings with 12 victims during the final full week of the month, April 20-26 — more than a month into the city’s COVID-19 lockdown, according to the data.
Seattle—Since July a homeless encampment has been growing behind Broadview-Thomson K-8 School in Seattle’s Bitter Lake community. Neighbors and parents continue to call on Seattle Public School to put children’s safety first and to remove the encampment. Over the past 10 months the homeless encampment behind the school has been grown into more than 40 tents.(Snip) On Sunday evening, We Heart Seattle, a citizen-funded coalition of volunteers, arrived to do what the district has not done—offer help. “Our model at We Heart Seattle is daily intensive outreach,” said Andrea Suarez, who is the executive director at We Heart Seattle.
The Judge in the Democrats case where they are attempting to stop the Arizona audit recused himself on Sunday. On Sunday evening in Arizona, the Maricopa County Superior Court Judge, Christopher Coury, who oversaw the case related to the Democrats’ challenge to the audit currently going on in the county, recused himself from the case. The reason is that the auditors hired an attorney who interned with Judge Coury previously. When the new attorney was introduced today for the first time the Judge was forced to resign from the case.
The former model from Slovenia, who has become one of the most famous and adored figures in American politics has now returned to the insularity of her husband’s private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida — where the family made their permanent residence, rather than New York City, after leaving the White House — Mrs. Trump, 51, has been enjoying spa treatments and focusing on her son, Barron, as well as spending time with her parents, sources say.
Orlando - House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is not ruling out a potential presidential bid, The Post has learned.
“I’m not ruling anything in or out — I’ve been here a long time,” she told The Post when asked if she would ever consider running in the future.
The Wyoming Republican — who has been a frequent target of former President Donald Trump — said there are a number of contenders she sees as having potential for the 2024 nomination, adding that she believes the lawmakers who led the efforts on challenging the election on Jan. 6 should be out of the running.
President Biden is signing an executive order Monday to start an unprecedented, coordinated push by the federal government to encourage more workers to unionize. Mr. Biden will create a White House “task force on worker organizing and empowerment”—led by Vice President Kamala Harris—to mobilize Cabinet agencies and other federal offices to help workers “organize and successfully bargain with their employers,” the White House said. The administration’s statement cited a “steady decline” in union membership in the U.S., from more than 30% of the workforce in the 1950s to 10.8% in 2020. “As the president has said: America was built by the middle class, and unions built
A caught-on-video brawl erupted Sunday at Miami International Airport over airline seats—with one person later arrested. Footage posted on Twitter by documentary film director Billy Corben shows two separate groups punching and kicking each other at gate D-14 in the American Airlines terminal.
A witness told Local 10 News that seven people were involved in the incident, which started over seats available on the plane.
Airport officials said police immediately responded to the scene.
“The victim did not want to press any charges. However, one person was arrested for disorderly conduct,” Miami-Dade police told the Miami Herald.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday that there was no evidence that Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd last May was a hate crime. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges on Tuesday for Floyd's death, during which the former police officer kneeled on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison and is currently being held in solitary confinement. When interviewer Scott Pelley asked Ellison whether the murder was a hate crime, the prosecutor replied: "I wouldn't call it that because hate crimes
Greenbelt, Md.—A D.C. pastor used loans meant for COVID pandemic relief to buy a Tesla and a property in Baltimore, according to U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. Rudolph Brooks Jr., of Cheltenham, Maryland, known as the pastor at Kingdom Tabernacle of Restoration Ministries, faces a federal charge for wire fraud. Federal authorities have also seized $2.2 million from his various bank accounts, along with a 2018 Tesla Model 3.(Snip) According to an affidavit, Brooks didn't use the money he obtained for those things; rather, he used the "fraudulently obtained" $1.5 million to pay for various things "including credit card bills,
At least 52 people from a single flight from Delhi to Hong Kong have tested positive for Covid-19, despite all passengers presenting a negative coronavirus test before boarding. All of the passengers who tested positive flew into Hong Kong on a flight from India's capital, run by Indian airline Vistara on April 4. Hong Kong as a whole has been recording fewer daily new infections than the total number detected on the flight, since it brought a fourth wave of infections under control in January. Meanwhile in India, the country's healthcare system is collapsing under a devastating second wave of coronavirus that is killing
A Republican state senator from Alaska who staunchly opposes COVID-19 restrictions has been banned from Alaska Airlines for refusing to wear a mask while flying. Alaska State Sen. Lora Reinbold was handed the no-fly order by airline management after she resisted multiple requests by staff to abide by its policies requiring masks for all passengers. “She is not permitted to fly with us for her continued refusal to comply with employee instruction regarding the current mask policy,” spokesman Tim Thompson told the Anchorage Daily News.(Snip)It’s a 20-hour drive from her home to the capital city and Alaska Airlines offers the only scheduled
A San Francisco man who allegedly killed a 7-month-old boy in his care had been arrested twice for domestic violence this year, according to a report.
Joseph Williams, 26, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder in the death of Synciere Williams after taking the unresponsive infant to an emergency room at a hospital, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.(Snip)
Police told the newspaper in a statement that Williams was the child’s “adult male caregiver,” but the pair are reportedly not related despite having the same last name.
Investigators later determined there was probable cause to take Williams into custody for homicide,
China canceled an online meeting with American officials last year to discuss mounting concerns regarding secret Chinese biological weapons work in possible violation of an international treaty, according to a new report.
The meeting between State Department arms control officials and their Chinese counterparts was planned as a video conference rather than in person because of COVID-19 travel curbs.(Snip) It was the first time in four years that Beijing refused to meet with U.S. officials to discuss suspected Chinese violations of the 1975 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, known as the BWC, fueling concerns that Beijing is working on weapons that kill with microbes
Gina Carano is set to appear in reality series Running Wild with Bear Grylls. Her episode of the show was previously taken out of the TV schedule after she was fired by Disney and Lucasfilm from Star Wars spin-off show The Mandalorian. But, when will her episode of Running Wild finally be on screen? Express.co.uk has all the details about the upcoming episode. Earlier this year it was revealed Gina would not be returning to the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian.
Lucasfilm announced there were "no plans" for the actor to come back to the series after her "abhorrent and unacceptable" posts on social media.
Washington Post opinion writer Radley Balko tweeted that he didn’t quite get why some people were so worried about “inadvertently driving near a protest, getting stuck in front of a wall of protesters, then getting pulled out of their car and beaten.”In his tweet, he referenced a ridiculous article from “The New Republic” which claimed Republicans wanted the “right to crash cars into people” and that Republicans were endorsing a “terroristic tactic” against “protesters.”/snip multiple tweets/ As I’ve covered the protests/riots over the past year, I’ve seen many encounters that have ranged from minor harassment to someone ending up BLM/Antifa people are constantly blocking cars in the street and
Black Caucus chair Rep. Joyce
Beatty: Police could ‘shoot in
the air’ to stop would-be killers replies
Beatty: Police could ‘shoot in
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COLUMBUS, OH – The Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus has joined hordes of untrained armchair quarterbacks, in order to render her opinion on police procedure after the officer-involved shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant.
In Columbus, Ohio on April 20, 2021, Officer Nicholas Reardon had to make a split second decision to intervene as Ma’Khia Bryant rushed toward her potential victim with a knife, after ignoring lawful orders to “get down.” Reardon fired his pistol, striking Bryant and ending the attack.
Aid was rendered at the scene, but Bryant was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Neighbors reported that Bryant “was in full attack mode” and also said:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will consider how much protection the Second Amendment provides for carrying a gun outside the home. The case will mark the first time in more than a decade that the court agreed to take up a central issue of the gun rights debate, something it has consistently ducked since issuing a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 that the Second Amendment provides an individual right to keep a handgun at home for self defense.
The court agreed to hear a challenge to a New York state law that
'Bill and I got pretty friendly':
James Patterson on writing with
Clinton and clashing with Trump replies
James Patterson on writing with
Clinton and clashing with Trump replies
Having a direct line to at least two former US presidents would seem almost a requirement for achieving the status of world’s bestselling author. But it’s not the “former guy” who lives two decent golf swings along Palm Beach’s swanky Ocean Boulevard that James Patterson has a lot of time for these days. It’s Donald Trump’s predecessor, Bill Clinton, who has become a trusted friend, confidante and business partner.(Snip) Patterson, who claims to be a left-leaning political independent, was no fan of the Trump administration, and admits the pair haven’t spoken since. “There’s a lot of bad stuff that went on there.
The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon
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Recently, two Republican members of Congress, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, floated a plan to launch the “America First Caucus.” A memo about the caucus’ goals cited the importance of America’s “Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” and warned that mass immigration threatens the “unique identity” of the United States.
Liberals and conservatives denounced in unison the supposed bigotry of Green and Gosar’s plans.
The howl was loud, prolonged, anguished and animated.Actress Frances McDormand's bizarre imitation of a wolf was comfortably the most surprising and interesting part of this year's Oscars.And although there was a heartfelt story behind it – she was paying tribute to a sound engineer on her movie Nomadland named Michael Wolf Snyder who took his life earlier this year – the howl perfectly encapsulated my own feelings watching the most unwatchable Academy Awards in history.Honestly, if there was an Oscar for Worst Horror Story, it would go to whoever decided it would be a good idea to hold this year's event in a train station.
Bush Republicanism Must Go Away
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The Democratic Party is actively trying to start a race war in the United States, and George Bush thinks it's Republican voters who need lessons in humanity and fellowship.
Bush is on the media circuit these days pushing amnesty (while calling it anything but!) for millions of foreign nationals who have entered the country illegally; lecturing Republican voters on being "more respectful about the immigrant"; and trying desperately to reclaim the Republican Party as the slightly less socialist wing of the Uniparty
After the Chauvin verdict,
Minneapolis activists fuel up and
prepare for the long fight ahead replies
Minneapolis activists fuel up and
prepare for the long fight ahead replies
MINNEAPOLIS — When protests broke out here last summer following George Floyd’s killing, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen was one of the few restaurants on its block that remained open. It became a community hub, feeding the hungry, distributing necessities like diapers and serving as a gathering spot for activists. So it was only natural that people flooded the popular restaurant when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd. Yes, they gathered to cheer Chauvin’s conviction on murder and manslaughter charges, but they also knew it was but a brief respite before they would again be raising
Michigan Democrat seen resisting DUI arrest,
threatens to call Gov. Whitmer in bodycam footage replies
threatens to call Gov. Whitmer in bodycam footage replies
Michigan Police released bodycam footage on Sunday of an incident involving Democratic state Rep. Jewell Jones, who was reportedly charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and weapons possession following a collision last week on Interstate 96 in Fowlerville. The video shows police tackle a combative Jones to the ground after he physically resisted arrest and threatened to call Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Jones can be heard reminding the officers that he had oversight of their budget as they attempt to put handcuffs on him.
Black-owned businesses in Minneapolis
autonomous zone – where police
are kept out – plead for help replies
autonomous zone – where police
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN– The New York Post reported that black-owned businesses at the intersection where George Floyd died in May 2020, now known as George Floyd Square, are pleading for, among other things, help from police. [Tweet] Black merchants near the once-thriving corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue said police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spoke and business evaporate.
Owner of Smoke in the Pit restaurant said:
“The city left me in danger.”
The merchant, who asked to be identified only as Alexander W, for fear of reprisals, added:
“They locked us up on here and left us behind. They left me with no food,
Fox News Poll: Biden approaches 100-day milestone As Joe Biden closes in on the 100-day mark of his presidency, a Fox News poll finds a 54 percent majority of voters approves of his job performance. That's lower than Barack Obama's 62 percent and George W. Bush's 63 percent approval at their respective 100-day points, but higher than the 45 percent Donald Trump received four years ago. CORRECTION*
Portland’s Pusillanimous Mayor
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In August 2020, then-President Donald Trump offered to assist the Democratic mayor of Portland, Oregon, in putting down the nightly riots that had ravaged his city for more than 90 days. Given this choice between ending the systematic violence and arson that was wreaking havoc throughout his city and publicly signaling his virtue, Mayor Ted Wheeler chose the latter. While the residents of Portland hid in their homes to avoid the violence, he responded to Trump’s offer with a sanctimonious letter that included this delusional passage: “No thanks. We don’t need your politics of division and demagoguery.” A week later, Portland police declared a riot and arrested 59 people.
When Biden Will Declare The COVID
Crisis Over? (Hint: It Won’t Have
Anything To Do With ‘Science’) replies
Crisis Over? (Hint: It Won’t Have
Anything To Do With ‘Science’) replies
The COVID-19 pandemic has been terrible for the nation. But it has been very, very good to President Joe Biden. It won him the presidency. It opened the door to massive liberal spending plans. It is propping up his approval ratings. No wonder he continues to play up the risks, and why he’s never going to claim victory … until it serves his political purposes.
Last week, Biden was on a video chat with other world leaders to talk about the so-called climate crisis. On the call were the heads of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Russia, and many
Race has always been used by the left and the Democrats to divide us. As we’ve seen all too clearly in recent weeks, this strategy has now achieved critical mass – and it’s moved into health care, the largest sector of the economy and one with critical influence on people’s lives -- and even survival. (snip) It turns out that for some time now the American medical Establishment has been laying the groundwork to focus increasingly on the alleged prominent role of racism in medical outcomes.
A few videos are making the rounds showing a wild brawl taking place at one of the gates in Miami International Airport. We don’t know what started the brawl, although the media are reporting that the police did eventually arrest one person for disorderly conduct. The primary victim, however, does not want to press charges, so the matter will almost certainly disappear.
What makes one of the videos so compelling is the fact that it seemly represents the breakdown of law and order across American cities.
Covid-19 has brought an end to Atlanta’s crown as the world’s busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic. And it was not Chicago O’Hare or Dubai, its previous closest challengers, but Guangzhou Baiyun Airport that is now number one.
The city of Guangzhou may be more familiar to you as Canton, the name long used by Westerners for the city that dominates the Peral River Delta in Southern China, about 85 miles north of Hong Kong. The Peral River Delta is now considered the world’s most populous conurbation (snip) China’s airports take 7 of the top ten slots for the busiest airports in the world,
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a surprise visit to the grand opening of the new Delray Beach Market on Saturday, a 150,000-square-foot facility that became the state’s largest food hall.Located near the Atlantic Avenue dining district, DeSantis dropped in on the grand opening of the new market that features more than two dozen unique culinary choices to help the business owners — some of whom relocated from stagnant New York — as well as continue to celebrate post-COVID reopenings.And in doing so, the popular conservative governor provided his detractors on the left with a new trigger: The way he ate a piece of pizza.
Redistricting in California could deliver several crucial House seats to the GOP in 2022 as the state’s congressional districts are redrawn following the 2020 census.The California Citizens Redistricting commission will redraw some congressional district boundaries this year according to updated census numbers. The new congressional map is expected to cut into California’s 45th district, currently held by Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, and bolster numbers in one or several of the surrounding districts in and around Orange County.Where the cuts will come out of Porter’s overpopulated county, and into which new district those voters will be placed, is difficult to predict.
What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows. But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife at best akin to those in Brazil and India—or at worst Lebanon, Syria, and Rwanda. Until just a few years ago, racial differences, according to polls, were more or less receding. Intermarriage between racial groups is at historic highs. But by 2014-2015, with the birth of Black Lives Matter, its courting by the Obama Administration, and the emergence of the electronic social media mob and cancel culture, such progress seems to have ended.
Iran Foreign Minister: Trump's Takedown
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I'm of two minds about this tape, and not just because the New York Times is heavily featuring it.
On the one hand, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, the main squeeze for every pro-Iran advocate from John Kerry in D.C. all the way across to Brussels, is admitting what every sane person who didn't work for the Obama administration knows is already the case.
The IRGC, Iran's hub for Islamic terrorism, calls the shots. Especially on foreign policy. And guys like Zarif are just there as window dressing to fool our useful idiots.
In the past year, essentially every person on planet earth has experienced a certain degree of loss. [SNIP] For me and my family, that person was my uncle, Rush Limbaugh.
For a year, not just our family, but countless loving fans prayed and petitioned for Uncle Rush to be healed. Shortly after he received his diagnosis, I was texting with Uncle Rush and sent him Romans 8:28 as encouragement: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." He wrote me back, "Christen, I believe that verse to a T!"
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that at least 8 million Americans who received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine have failed to return for the second dose. Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines require two doses about a month apart for the full immunological effects to take hold.
About 8 percent of people are not taking their second dose, double what the rate was in February. Then, the cause was a limited supply that created bottlenecks in some regions of the country. But public health authorities are concerned because while one dose of vaccine offers some protection, two doses are needed
The most famous modern instance of the United States consciously adopting a grand strategy was the concept of “containment” against the Soviet Union, devised by the diplomat and Russian area specialist George Kennan in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Yet a look at how Kennan’s idea evolved, how it was adopted, and how it played out over time, indicates that it was no cut-and-dry affair; that it was adopted mainly in a negative sense; that it provided relatively little guidance during the long Cold War decades; and that it appeared prescient—romantic even—particularly in retrospect once the Cold War had ended. CORRECTION*
Some new polls are offering an interesting snapshot of the public’s opinion of Joe Biden and some of the critical issues we are currently facing.
Now, often polls seem weighted toward Democrats. It also goes without saying that Democrats will be all-in for Biden, and the GOP will be largely disapproving of his actions. So the real question is: where are the independents lining up? Because that’s often what swings elections.
The opinion is varied, as one can see from the following polls. According to the Daily Wire, while Democrats are inconsistent in their opinions on court-packing, with their opinion depending on whether
The Swiss weekly Weltwoche offered an immediate response to the judgment of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, examining the political circumstances surrounding the verdict, and the subsequent remarks by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris about the low moral state of white Americans.
The article in this habitually centrist Swiss German paper was titled (in translation) “No reconciliation after judgment in the George Floyd case—Joe Biden pours gas into the fire and characterizes the U.S. as ‘systemically racist.’”
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Sunday pushed back against progressive Democrats who call him a "roadblock" to their liberal proposals, emphasizing he is "not going to be part of blowing up this Senate."
CNN's "State of the Union" anchor Dana Bash asked Manchin how he would respond to Democrats who say that he is one of the "main roadblocks" to President Biden passing his "ambitious agenda," prompting Manchin to say, "I'm not a roadblock at all."
"I am not going to be part of blowing up this Senate of ours or basically this democracy of ours or the republic that we have," Manchin said
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In the never-ending saga of Dr. Fauci’s white-coat supremacism over public policy, in which, to paraphrase Mussolini, the motto of Faucism might be “All within the CDC, nothing outside the CDC, nothing against the CDC,” we note the new study from MIT published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which finds that the indoor six-foot distancing rule is not well-founded. To the contrary, the study found that there was about the same risk of catching COVID indoors at 60 feet as there is at six feet. Face masks and ventilation/air circulation are much more effective than social distancing.
Two Washington DC officers crashed and totaled their police vehicles while drag racing on duty last week, a report said. The cops from the Metropolitan Police Department raced each other on Thursday at about 5 p.m. on Anacostia Avenue near Kenilworth Park, hitting speeds of at least 60 mph, Fox 5 DC reported, citing an internal email and sources. Commander Durriyyah Habeebullah ripped the officers’ actions in the email sent to department management following the crash. “Yesterday two 6D scout cars were totaled because officers decided instead of fighting crime, patrolling their beats, or engaging the community–they decided to drag race each other on Anacostia Avenue
On Sunday morning, media talking heads were touting President Joe Biden’s approval rating after 100 days in office citing polls from NBC News and ABC News/The Washington Post. Both polls found that Biden’s approval sits at 52%, which the commentators pointed out is ten points higher than Donald Trump’s at the same milestone in his presidency. However, as the Washington Examiner’s Byron York pointed out, Biden’s approval is the third lowest since President Harry Truman. Only President Trump and President Gerald Ford scored lower. Both of them had the media united against them, and Biden has received nothing but air cover and glowing coverage from the corporate media.
In a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll the liberal outlets released on Sunday, President Biden’s approval rating was supposedly sitting at an anemic 52 percent. And according to their methodology, the margin of error for the poll was 3.5 percent. Now given how that meant Biden could be below 50 percent, it was understandable that the cast of characters on ABC’s Good Morning America were floored by the results.
“52 percent of Americans approve of Joe Biden's work in office as he approaches the 100-day mark. That is ten points higher than Donald Trump at this point in his presidency, but 17 points lower than Barack Obama,”