Posts on Tuesday, May 25, 2021
President Biden wants to spend in excess of $1 trillion to combat climate change, but more than one-third of Americans are unwilling to chip in a single buck. A poll of 1,200 registered voters released Tuesday by the Competitive Enterprise Institute found that 35% were unwilling to spend any of their own money to reduce the impact of climate change, with another 15% saying they would only go as high as $10 per month. Another 6% said they would be willing to spend between $11 and $20 per month. At the other end of the spectrum were those who said they would part with between $901
The Biden administration ended an inquiry into a possible connection between the origins of the novel coronavirus and a lab in Wuhan, a CNN report published Tuesday claims. The State Department launched the previously-undisclosed inquiry last fall under President Trump–but the effort was shut down this spring because of “concerns about the quality of its work,” CNN reported, citing three unnamed sources. Allies of Mike Pompeo, Trump’s Secretary of State, were looking into the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic may have started in Wuhan Institute of Virology and not in nature, CNN reported. But after the changeover in administrations, concerns were raised
Some liberal goof asserted that Ron DeSantis resided somewhere on the Asperger’s Spectrum in a recent tweet that I can’t dig up with just a cursory search, but said pinko tweeted that like it was a bad thing. It’s not. It’s a great thing, and we need more GOP pols with that condition’s political manifestation. People with Asperger’s tend to miss social cues and fail to respond as society expects, but many are also focused, driven, and generally amazing in their areas of interest. When you put those qualities together in a right-wing officeholder, that means you have a Conservative Terminator. Conservativing is what he does; it’s all he does.
EPHRATA, Wash. — Ephrata homeowners got a bit of a surprise when a cougar came wandering through their neighborhood.
KXLY TV reported that April Longwill shared video taken by her husband that showed the cougar scrambling up a fence into a backyard.
Ephrata Police said that cougar ended up clawing through a screen door and entered a resident's house. The homeowners inside quickly tranquilized it, but the cougar continue, running into the kitchen and climbing up the sink to try jumping out the window.. They tranquilized the cougar again and it finally went to sleep.
A rise in violent crime is endangering slim Democratic congressional majorities more than a year out from the midterm elections and threatening to revive “law and order” as a major campaign issue for Republicans for the first time since the 1990s. Homicides in cities increased by up to 40% over the previous year, the biggest single-year increase since 1960, a trend that has not abated so far in 2021. Sixty-three of the 66 largest police jurisdictions saw a rise in at least one category of violent crime, ranging from homicide and rape to robbery and assault, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
On Monday, the New York Times promoted an opinion piece written by Michelle Goldberg, titled “Attacks on Jews Over Israel Are a Gift to the Right.”The disgusting article explained how the recent “flagrant public assaults on Jews,” which, according to Goldberg was “more reminiscent of the sort of anti-Semitic aggression common in Europe,” is motivated by anti-Zionism.The Daily Wire reports:Throughout the piece, Goldberg makes several deeply controversial claims, including that “four years of spiking anti-Semitism that started around the time Republicans nominated Donald Trump in 2016” —
Pelosi reportedly hasn’t dropped a dime
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has allegedly not spent a single dime matching campaign donations even though she promised personally to do so in at least 50 emails to her supporters.The emails were sent by Pelosi for Congress, the House Speaker’s campaign committee, between January and April according to Axios who conducted an analysis of a political email archive maintained by researchers at Princeton University.FEC records indicate that Pelosi has not given any of her personal wealth to her campaign. The slight goes beyond breaking a promise made repeatedly. It may create a legal mess for the Speaker of the House if a recent Department of Justice decision is heeded.
Anthony Fauci has defended the United States' 'modest' and 'very respectable' funding of the Wuhan laboratory—which is now at the center of speculation as a possible source of the COVID-19 virus. Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), appeared before a Congressional budget committee on Tuesday. He defended allocating $600,000 to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, which then paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that bat coronaviruses could infect humans.(Snip) Paul insisted that the money was being used for gain of function research: Fauci insisted it was not. 'You are entirely and completely incorrect,' Fauci
Doctors, Parents Sue HHS Over COVID-19
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A number of doctors and parents have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its secretary, Xavier Becerra, in a federal court, seeking to prevent the expansion of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of COVID-19 vaccines from including children under 16 years old.
America’s Frontline Doctors—a nonprofit organization—and parents filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on May 19, saying “every plaintiff with children or patients in the target age group stands to be immediately and irreparably harmed by the extension.”
Trump Republicans protested at the Michigan Republican Party’s headquarters in Lansing, Michigan today. They were upset that the Executive Director of the State Party, Jason Roe, has made repeated dismissive and NeverTrump statements to groups and candidates and were hoping to get the attention of the new Party Chairman to fire Roe.This past month Roe was at a Michigan political event where he got into arguments with several Republican activists and candidates for office about the Trump legacy and about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.Roe told conservatives they were idiots for supporting Trump, idiots for believing in voter fraud,
Joe Biden on Tuesday met with George Floyd’s family on the anniversary of his death. Biden was asked about his time with George Floyd’s 7-year-old daughter Gianna Floyd. Joe Biden told reporters, “[Gianna] threw her arms around me, gave me a big hug and wanted to sit on my lap.”
“My wife would kill me — we gave her some ice cream, she had some Cheetos, and I think she had some chocolate milk,” Biden said.Creepy Hands Joe is back to his old self now that Covid protocols such as social distancing have eased.VIDEO:
Former President Donald Trump's lawyer argued in a new filing that the speech he delivered on January 6 before the MAGA riot was protected by the First Amendment and he had 'absolute immunity' as president to contest the election.The claim filed in D.C. District Court was in response to a lawsuit from Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of the House's impeachment managers, seeking to hold Trump legally accountable for inciting an insurrection after Democrats were unable to get an impeachment conviction in the U.S. Senate. Trump's lawyer said that the president's bully pulpit message at the 'Save America' rally was a constitutionally protected presidential act, according to CNN,
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene thanked a supporter for calling GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy a 'moron' and a 'feckless c***' in a tweet she then deleted.A Twitter user called Simple Patriot responded to McCarthy condemning Greene for comparing COVID restrictions to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust by saying: 'Look you moron, nobody supported Israel in their recent conflict with Hamas more than MTG. Her analogy may not have been perfect but seriously you need to get a grip you feckless c****. Pelosi is the villain here'.Greene shared the tweet and wrote: 'Thank you for seeing the truth and how much I support Israel
Manhattan prosecutors have convened the grand jury that will weigh criminal charges against Donald Trump, according to reports on Tuesday.The grand jury will also consider whether other Trump Organization executives or the business itself will be prosecuted, The Washington Post reported.
Investigators are looking into whether his business manipulated the value of his real estate portfolio to defraud banks and insurance companies and if any tax benefits were obtained through the evaluations.The president has denied any wrongdoing and believes all the investigations into him are just further examples of Democratic witch hunts.
NIH Director Francis Collins confirmed Tuesday that that the National Institutes of Health approved $3.7 million in taxpayer funds to the non-profit group EcoHealth Alliance, which in turn sent $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is suspected to be the source of the coronavirus.
“One of the things that we have to do is to provide some oversight of the monies that have been appropriated to NIH, and for instance, this morning’s front page story in the Wall Street Journal is the Wuhan lab leak debate,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) said at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on NIH’s 2022 budget request.
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday urged an inspector general to investigate the extent of the U.S. Postal Service’s surveillance of Americans’ social media accounts. The Postal Service’s law enforcement arm previously confirmed to lawmakers’ staffs that the agency’s Internet Covert Operations Program or iCOP had monitored social media for “inflammatory” posts and shared details about the accounts and posts with other federal law enforcement agencies, according to lawmakers. “These activities raise serious questions about the scope of the program, the extent of sharing of information among law enforcement agencies, and whether [U.S. Postal Inspection Service] has the authority to conduct such an operation
NYT’s Maggie Haberman Blames Trump For
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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suggested to CNN on Monday that the reason the media did not treat claims seriously that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was because the information was coming from the Trump administration.“I do think it’s important to remember that part of this issue when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun was that then President Trump and Mike Pompeo the Secretary of State both suggested they had seen evidence that this was formed in a lab
The Left and the media long suspected that the Department of Justice memo upon which former Attorney General William Barr based his decision not to prosecute then-president Donald Trump for obstruction of justice contained a “smoking gun” that would prove Trump guilty and discredit Barr’s conclusions.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson apparently put that theory to rest when she ordered the release of part of the memo that dealt with how Barr reached that decision. Barr relied on advice from several sources, including the Office of Legal Counsel. The OLC recommended against prosecuting Trump, not only because there are constitutional issues with prosecuting a president for obstruction,
In the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York, one in 146 people has died of COVID - one of the highest death rates in the city. Yet the neighborhood has the lowest vaccination rate of any in NYC - only 29 percent of residents have had at least one dose, and only 23 percent are fully vaccinated. Some Far Rockaway residents want to wait and see how well the vaccines work before getting a shot themselves, while others believe unfounded conspiracy theories about the shots. Though 52 percent of New Yorkers have had at least one dose, rates vary greatly within
A judge on Tuesday dismissed an indictment against Steve Bannon.Prosecutors previously objected and said the indictment against Bannon should stand despite President’s Trump decision to issue a pardon of his former advisor.Federal prosecutors were angry over the presidential pardon and wanted the indictment to stand because dismissing it “could have a broader effect than the pardon itself, among other things potentially relieving Bannon of certain consequences not covered by the pardon.” US District Judge Analisa Torres, an Obama appointee on Tuesday dismissed the indictment.
House Republican leaders forcefully condemned GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday, calling her comments comparing House COVID-19 safety rules like mask-wearing to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany “appalling.”
The freshman Georgia congresswoman's comments belittled "the greatest atrocity committed in history,” said House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Joe Biden is sleepy. He’s slow. He’s aloof. And he calls it a day early—very early at times. Yet, The New York Times did a lengthy piece about the inner workings of this White House to confirm what we already knew, along with insight into what foods he hates to be served in public events and his favorite drink, which is apparently orange Gatorade. It’s the anti-Trump piece in the sense that it shows how Joe comes to a decision which is at a pace slower than a Galapagos tortoise. Yes, that part we knew. His decision-making process is as torturous as this presidency. And the publication notes
West Valley City police released body camera footage from officers that show Clark approached the officers carrying the crowbar.
When he was ordered to drop the crowbar, Clark replied, “Nope, let me get these car keys or someone’s getting it.” He then said, “Alright, here I come,” as he raised the crowbar over his head with both hands and ran toward one of the WVCPD officers.
One of the officers fired his Taser, but it had “no effect” on Clark, who “sprinted after” one of the officers. The other two officers chased Clark, who “suddenly turned and came at them with the crowbar still above his head with both hands.”
An audit spokesperson upped the number of ballots recounted by 180,000 before work stopped more than a week ago.Randy Pullen, an audit spokesperson and former state GOP chair, said that 680,000 ballots had been reviewed when the recount paused on May 13. Ken Bennett, the Senate's audit liaison, previously put the estimate at 500,000.That still leaves just more than 1.4 million Maricopa County ballots to recount before the Arizona Senate's lease at Veterans Memorial Coliseum expires June 30. After more than a week off to allow for high school graduations at the coliseum, the recount got underway again Monday. Pullen did not provide an estimate on Monday's pace.
During an appearance on Fox News, President Donald Trump’s former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany unleashed on Dr. Anthony Fauci for his constant “flip-flops.”The comments, which came on Tuesday during Fox News’ “Outnumbered,” came in response to Fauci’s position pivots on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic as well as masks.WATCH:The segment was launched by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine who blasted the media for creating confusion on the lab leak theory considering they tried to discredit it after former President Trump promoted the theory.
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Joe Biden decided Americans have too much money so he's going to send a bunch of it to Hamas. Over in Israel, Secretary of State Blinken announced that Biden wants to reopen a consulate in Jerusalem catering to the PLO. Prime Minister Netanyahu is resisting, but it's bound to happen anyway. [SNIP] Blinken added the Biden administration would be asking Congress to approve an additional $75 million dollars in assistance for the reconstruction of Gaza in 2021 and another $30 million dollars for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees.
Tuesday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) reacted to recent revelations that suggest COVID-19 may have originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, a theory immediately shot down by the media and so-called health experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020.Johnson said on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that the GOP wants “honest and complete answers” from Fauci and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins about the possible origins of the virus.“The evidence of the creation of this in a lab or the leaking … from a lab has been hidden in plain sight for literally months, but the mainstream media just won’t pick up the story.
A 20-year-old man hurled anti-Semitic insults at an elderly stranger, punching him in the face as he tried to enter a Brooklyn synagogue Monday night, police said. The hate-fueled attack started around 9:30 p.m. in front of Congregation Kerem Shlomo on East 27th Street in Sheepshead Bay when the unhinged younger man suddenly socked the 67-year-old in the face and yelled anti-Semitic slurs, cops said.(Snip) The alleged attacker, Hersham Ghonim, was arrested and charged with assault, assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, resisting arrest, criminal mischief and menacing, cops said. He was identified by police as black.
A Ewing man has been arrested on charges he gunned down a woman in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven store on Lalor Street in Hamilton last week.
Joshua Lopez, 23, is charged with first-degree murder and related firearms charges in the May 18 killing of Katherine Montenegro, who was also 23. A U.S. Marshals’ task force arrested him in Ewing Monday night.(Snip)
Homicide detectives used surveillance camera footage and witnesses to identify Lopez, authorities said. Lopez is also charged with possessing a weapon as a convicted felon. Records show he has multiple prior convictions for assault and possessing a firearm
The second person in the world to get the Pfizer-BioNTech jab has died of an unrelated illness. Bill Shakespeare, 81, received his first Covid vaccine in December at University Hospital Coventry shortly after 91-year-old Margaret Keenan. Coventry councillor Jayne Innes, a friend of Mr Shakespeare, said he had died on Thursday and added the "best tribute to Bill is to have the jab". Mr Shakespeare had worked at Rolls-Royce and was a parish councillor.
The 81-year-old, who had served his local community in Allesley for more than three decades, died of a stroke, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who lied about where she was on January 6 in order to ramp up a story of victimhood, is now arguing being on the U.S. Capitol grounds the day of the riot is equal to "serving in war."
"Speaking to the weekly public radio show Latino USA on Friday, Ms Ocasio-Cortez said members of Congress effectively 'served in war' during the traumatising event that had "deeply affected lawmaking" and impacted the legislative process," the Independent reports.
Former U.S. Army Green Beret and Congressman Michael Waltz has taken notice and is blasting his colleague for the comparison.
They know.
Virginia’s Democrats know a bad thing happened to them on May 8. They know more than 53,000 Republicans signed up for the unassembled convention to select candidates for statewide office when only 5,000 were expected.
They know that Republicans will have the more diverse ticket, Republicans who have the resources and momentum and Republicans who have on their side what are shaping up as the issues in this campaign.They know Republicans selected a transformational ticket, led by businessman Glenn Youngkin, who lives in Great Falls but grew up in Virginia Beach, giving him links to two of the state’s most voter-rich areas; lieutenant governor candidate Winsome Sears, a Black woman,
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Parents are expressing their outrage after a Seattle elementary school, located only a few feet from a homeless encampment, experienced a break-in and multiple lockdowns. One Broadview-Thomson elementary school parent, Bryce Nicolls, joined "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, and said that the situation has spiraled "completely out of control" after an unknown man entered the school with students present. "They have broken into the school. The school has been on a shelter-in-place lockdown multiple times due to one of the people at the encampment having a gun, and there’s fights there constantly," Nicolls said. In the one instance, the school
At least one person was shot Tuesday when gunfire erupted in George Floyd Square in Minneapolis on the one-year anniversary of the police-custody murder. Minneapolis police confirmed to USA Today that one person had been shot and 911 callers reported a suspected gunman fleeing in a vehicle “at a high rate of speed.” “This is an evolving incident,” police spokesperson John Elder said in a statement to the outlet. “No further information is available at this time.” Footage taken by the Associated Press recorded nearly 30 loud bangs around 11 a.m. at the intersection where Floyd died, 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.
States across the country are lifting COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is relaxing mask recommendations, and much of American life is slowly returning to normal after the pandemic. While President Joe Biden may want to take credit for these positive developments, former President Donald Trump has a better claim. Sure, Trump made some misstatements during the pandemic, but he launched the one project that made the greatest difference in combatting COVID-19.In a statement on Tuesday, Trump explained why the United States has largely gotten the pandemic under control.“New United States COVID cases, because of the record-breaking development of the vaccine
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Wildlife trappers have captured and removed at least 226 nuisance alligators from Walt Disney World property since a toddler was killed by an alligator at a Disney resort nearly five years ago, state records show. Lane Thomas Graves, 2, was building sandcastles on the beach outside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort on June 14, 2016, when an alligator lunged out of the Seven Seas Lagoon as the toddler bent over to scoop up water with a bucket, a state investigation concluded. Over the eight years prior to the child’s death, state-contracted wildlife trappers removed an average
Refund The Police? Major Cities
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A year after the death of George Floyd, elected officials of major cities are walking back commitments to cut police funding amid spiking crime rates.
Elected leaders in places such a Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles are now pushing to increase funding to police departments after months of budget cuts and low morale have gutted law enforcement ranks. At the same time, major cities across the U.S. are suffering spikes in violent crime.“The violence needs to stop, its unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by.
Minneapolis—The Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd died was disrupted by gunfire Tuesday, just hours before it was to be the site of a family-friendly street festival marking the anniversary of his death at the hands of police. Associated Press video from the scene showed people running and seeking cover as shots rang out. A police spokesman didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Journalist Philip Crowther, who was shooting live video from 38th and Chicago, reported hearing as many as 30 gunshots about a block east of the intersection. Crowther said a storefront window appeared to have been broken by a gunshot.
The Biden State Department is encouraging all U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” to display Marxist Black Lives Matter flags on May 25 to mark the one year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, according to a memo obtained by Human Events reporter Jack Posobiec. (Tweet)The memo, signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said the United States would be among “many in the international community” honoring the career criminal.
Summary: May 25 marks one year since the brutal murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Last year, the horrific video of Mr. Floyd’s final 9 minutes and 29 seconds went viral and spurred Black Lives Matter
China is working on a long-range stealth bomber which may be able to carry out nuclear strikes on US targets in Guam and beyond, a military analyst has revealed. New computer-generated images of the Xian H-20 strategic bomber have been published by the state defence corporation, Norinco – the first glimpse of the next-generation warplane which has been under development for years. The four images suggest the bomber has a weapon bay, two adjustable tail wings, an airborne radar and two air intakes either side of the cockpit in a similar design to the USAF B-2 Spirit,
So the Israelis have once again let themselves and much of the rest of the world down by calling a halt to their latest skirmish with the “Palestinians” of Hamas, to whom they unwisely transferred control of the Gaza strip back in 2005.
The recent round of rocket-launching and retaliatory air strikes accomplished nothing strategic, but merely kicked the can of resolution down the road yet again in the vain hopes that the elusive “peace process” might someday resolve the conflict.
There’s only one resolution to this fight, however, and that is total victory for one side or the other. And that will be the side that wants it more,
The liberal media have finally conceded that COVID-19 may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory - after a year spent ridiculing the suggestion.The first fatality from COVID-19 was reported by Chinese state media on January 11, 2020, when a 61-year-old man who was a regular customer at a market in Wuhan died. The first confirmed case in the United States was 10 days later, when a man returned to Washington state from Wuhan.Within a week, on January 26, 2020, the first article blaming the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the outbreak was published, in The Washington Times. Yet most mainstream media disputed the claims, dismissing them outright or
Vague threats from social media users dressed as menacing clowns in 2016 led to intense police monitoring of their accounts and an effort to “identify those who may be responsible”, according to records from Washington DC’s Metropolitan police department (MPD). The threats, which came in the lead-up to Halloween from accounts billing themselves as “killer clowns” under user names like “snappytheclown_” and “dmvclownns”, led to intensive surveillance of those participating in the clown craze which triggered a wave of clown-themed media coverage. Clown sightings were eventually recorded all over the US in 2016, having apparently begun in Greenville, South Carolina, before spreading across the south
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis torched a reporter Monday who asked whether the governor signed a Big Tech censorship bill because of former President Donald Trump.“You’re loyal to former President Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is now a resident in Florida and he was de-platformed,” the unidentified reporter asks. “Is this bill for him?”“The bill is for everyday Floridians, this is what we’ve said and it will allow any Floridian to be able to provide what they’re doing. But I do think that’s another issue that has been brought to bear: when you de-platform the president of the United States but
The D.C. mayor wants $400 million devoted to creating more affordable housing. Mayor Muriel Bowser will deliver her budget to the D.C. Council on Thursday. With the new project in the Petworth neighborhood Spring Flats nearing completion behind her, Bowser said she plans to commit $400 million toward housing when she presents her budget. “My budget will include enough local rental supplement program vouchers to ensure that 50% of the homes produced using the FY 22 Trust Fund dollars are for residents making between zero and 30% of the median family income, and we know that’s a big deal,” Bowser said.
Actor and comedian Ricky Gervais perfectly summed up Twitter during a recent stand-up routine and shared the footage online, to our benefit.“I don’t know who’s following me. I’ve got 12 million followers — I don’t know who is following me,” he said in the clip. “They could be following me without me knowing, choose to read my tweets and then take that personally.”Gervais laid out what that experience would equate to in real life. Despite what many may believe, Twitter is not real life.
The media and Maricopa County officials have been claiming that voter result databases were not deleted; and they reference the ability of the auditors to recover the deleted information as proof the voter data was never deleted. However, according to technical forensic expert Ben Cotton, the ‘D’ drive of the EMS Primary Server was in fact deleted. It was only because of his extensive experience in the data forensics field that he was able to recover the deleted files; which is exactly what he said at the Arizona State Senate hearing on May 19th.(Video)QUESTION – ““Did you determine that the D drive was deleted?”
At least six people — including two teens — were shot in separate incidents across the Big Apple overnight, cops said. The youngest victim was a 17-year-old boy who was blasted in the back around 10:15 p.m. Sunday during a dispute at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 120th Street in Harlem, cops said. He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition. Shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, an 18-year-old woman was shot in the back when someone fired rounds from a car at Beekman Avenue and St. Mary’s Street, near St. Mary’s Park, in Mott Haven, police said.
The mumbling White House occupant visited FEMA headquarters to review preparations for this year’s upcoming Hurricane season.
Lord, hear our prayers….(Video)Bottom-line folks, with the mass exodus of competence in logistics, supply chain organization and priority relief delivery experts, in favor of politically correct non-gender specific diversity operatives, don’t look for any help from the Feds.
“Chin up, in the event of an emergency…. WE GOT THIS“!
I am now 100% convinced that the 49th Governor of the state of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, is trolling the whole state and daring anyone to stop her. Really. If you are a political junkie it is amazing to watch how this lady rolls. As I wrote about here at RedState yesterday, Whitmer held an event just a day after issuing an apology for breaking her own COVID rules. Michigan Governor Channels Her Inner Gavin Newsom, Breaks Her Own COVID Rules at a Bar With Friends. This event at a furniture manufacturer gave the press the first chance to ask her why she
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged over the public school district’s decision to start using an anonymous “Bias Reporting” form. The parents, who are part of a recently formed political action committee called “Fight for Schools,” say the form “asks students to anonymously cancel each other” in an effort to root out racism.(Snip) A spokesperson for Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) told The Washington Times that the form is part of the district’s “Detailed Action Plan to Combat Systemic Racism.” “The specific reason behind this action step is to utilize it as a means to amplify and elevate student voice,” the spokesperson said
The body of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick wasn’t even cold before his employer leveraged his untimely death to stoke more outrage about the events in the nation’s capital on January 6. “At approximately 9:30 p.m. this evening . . . United States Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” read a press release issued January 7. (snip) The agency intentionally included the word “homicide” to suggest Sicknick was killed by homicidal Trump supporters. CORRECTION*
Buck Throckmorton over at Ace of Spades has an expert rant, decrying the incredible racism and white supremacy of the word 'Latinx,' courtesy of the Democrats.
He begins:
Question: Who uses the term “Latinx”?
Answer: White, left-wing English speakers.
Question: Who doesn’t use the term “Latinx”?
Answer: Latinos and Latinas.
Per a Pew Research Poll conducted in December 2019, only 3% of Hispanics use the term “Latinx.” Three percent! You are more likely to find a Whole Foods customer wearing a MAGA hat than you are to find an Hispanic who identifies as Latinx.
Twenty-one-year-old Lucas Gerhard was arrested almost two years ago in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, for sending an obvious joke to friends via a private Snapchat. Since then, he spent 83 days in jail, before being transferred to house arrest, where he is unable to go to school, leave the house, or use the internet. And this is all because he made a private joke about his legal AR-15. This is a heinous assault on both his First and Second Amendment rights. Moreover, it takes place against a backdrop of leftist prosecutors and governors across America bending over backward to release violent criminals.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a sarcastic jab at social media platforms on Monday, asking if Dr. Anthony Fauci should be deplatformed after he said earlier this month he was "not convinced" that COVID-19 developed naturally.
DeSantis referenced Fauci’s remarks at a press conference ahead of his signing of a Florida bill that will penalize social media platforms for suspending the accounts of political candidates.
During the event, the Republican governor argued that social media platforms had previously cracked down on accounts who posted claims that the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China.
The Biden administration is using the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol building as a pretext for a domestic spying campaign that will supposedly target “violent extremists” but is more accurately described as the beginnings of a Biden police state.
Last week, we learned that the Defense Department plans to monitor service members’ social media posts for “concerning behaviors.” According to The Intercept, which broke this story, the plan is to enlist a private firm to do the spying, so as to avoid nasty entanglements with the First Amendment. The Intercept reports that:
Ron DeSantis Mic Drops Florida Reporter in
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Though relationships between the press and politicians are supposed to be adversarial by nature, it’s no big secret that Ron DeSantis and the mainstream media’s exchanges are more combative than most.There are two big reasons for that. He’s the popular Republican governor of a red state and one who chose a vastly different (and what appears to be a far more successful) approach to handling the coronavirus outbreak than the more draconian ones preferred by the MSM in blue states with Democratic governors like New York and Michigan.Not only that, but DeSantis was a staunch ally of President Trump
President Joe Biden certainly wasn’t elected for his oratorical skills. But the American people who did vote for him at least expected their incoming president would be able to speak basic English in speeches and at meetings.Those people would be wrong. On Monday, President Biden was called in to receive a hurricane briefing from FEMA. The Washington Post gave the set-up.“President Biden said he would ‘insist on nothing less than readiness’ as he visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday ahead of the official June 1 start of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season,” the Post reported.
The world is so plagued by contradictions right now that I sometimes find myself quietly mouthing the opening sentences of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (and I bet I'm not alone in this admission). In terms of safety, health, opportunity, and prosperity, there has never been a better time in human history, but hardly anyone living anywhere is celebrating. Barack Obama sold "hope" on his march to power, but Black Lives Matter and Antifa preach only despair at every turn. An American government invested in projecting strength abroad stokes fear at home. It has never been easier to acquire knowhow of almost any kind,
Lucas Gerhard is a 21-year-old man. Instead of celebrating his graduation from Lake Superior State University in Sault St. Marie, MI, in the criminal justice field and looking for a job in law enforcement, Lucas is locked down in his father’s home, wearing an ankle bracelet. (Photo) Lucas is an Eagle Scout and has no criminal record.(Photos) During his trial, the prosecutor attempted to paint Lucas as a threat to the school community, claiming that he had numerous “contacts” with Law Enforcement at LSSU.
zIn the four years he was President, Donald Trump rebuilt the economy after the policy disasters of the Bush-Obama years, significantly curtailed illegal immigration, confronted and exposed the Chinese Communist Party, and with Operation Warp Speed conquered the China Coronavirus pandemic. While this list is impressive, his most significant long-term accomplishment may well place him in the pantheon of the American presidents that saved the nation: he fortuitously ripped open the floorboards and exposed the termites stealthily and relentlessly consuming the cultural, societal, and governmental foundation of the country.
The COVID Vaccine: The Facts
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There are a host of wild-eyed conspiracy theories about how Anthony Fauci paid the CCP to engineer the COVID-19 virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (snip)
COVID19 is a bad virus. The media has programmed us to believe that if we get with six feet of it, we’ll die. That’s not true, but the mental damage has been done. (snip) Until we have actual information, we simply do not have the ability to make a fully informed choice. And governmental agents who insist that you must have the shot are simply being power-mad dictators. They don’t have good information, either.
The Biden administration said Monday that it would appeal a judge's order directing it to release in its entirety a legal memo on whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice during the Russia investigation. But it also agreed to make a brief portion of the document public.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson earlier this month ordered the Justice Department to release the entire March 2019 memo as part of a public records lawsuit from a Washington-based advocacy organization. She said the department, under Attorney General William Barr, had misstated the purpose of the document in arguing that it was legally entitled to withhold it
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) campaign committee has repeatedly deceived donors by personally promising she would match campaign contributions but has not matched a single cent, according to a report.
Pelosi has been using a popular deceptive tactic used in political fundraising to gather more donations. According to the report by Axios, the tactic that has been under intense scrutiny is to promise donation-matching.
Pelosi’s campaign has reportedly gone a step further by the speaker promising the contribution matching would come from her personal fortune. But, reports show Pelosi has not made a single contribution from herself.
The White House on Monday reiterated that immigration czar Vice President Kamala Harris has no plans to visit the border — as new video shows a group of about 50 illegal immigrants overwhelming Border Patrol agents in Texas on Sunday, in the latest example of the ongoing crisis on the southern crossing. Despite the alarming footage, White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday said Harris, who was appointed by President Biden to oversee the border in March, still has made no arrangements to surveil the situation in person and talk to local officials there.
Just a thought occasioned by the fact that the United States recorded 13,541 cases yesterday, the lowest single-day number — by far — since the virus started rolling last March. The best we’d managed since April 1, 2020 was one day last June when cases slipped under 19,000 briefly as the country enjoyed a summer respite from its terrible first wave. But testing was still sparse back then. There were probably many infections going undetected.
Last June was also the last time we saw a seven-day average in daily cases of 25,000 or lower, again with lower testing. Right now we’re at 25,083.
Is this it? The imminent demise of COVID?
A measure long sought by conservative activists allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license is on the cusp of becoming law after the Texas Senate approved a compromise on the bill Monday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Abbott has said he would sign the permitless carry proposal into law.
"We should have 'constitutional carry' in Texas," Abbott told North Texas radio host Rick Roberts in April. Just before midnight Sunday, the House approved the deal, hashed out behind closed doors, in an 82-62 vote. The Senate approved the deal Monday in a 17-13 vote.
“This is a simple restoration
We’ve heard about what Barack Obama reportedly thinks about Donald Trump from Edward-Isaac Dovere’s new book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, but Obama also had some things to say about Joe Biden… and they aren’t very flattering.
According to The Daily Mail, which has previewed Dovere’s book, Obama was “dubious” about Biden’s presidential aspirations in 2016. “Obama, for his part, went from assuring his aides not to worry, that his vice president was just working out his grief at his son’s [Beau’s] death by entertaining the fantasy of running for president, to becoming worried that Biden was actually getting lost in his fantasy.”
Dan Crenshaw has a thing or two to say about woke military recruitment.
Over the weekend, the Texas congressman slammed the service as it relates to political correctness, particularly regarding a United States Army marketing video.
As you’re likely aware, it’s a new look for American defense, not the least of which is accomplished by it being a cartoon: Older ads were a bit harder-edged: Perhaps more notably, America’s updated approach starkly contrasts that of Russia: China looks to take a different angle as well: That brings to mind a headline at — oddly — AmericanMilitaryNews.com: “Bill Maher Video: China Dominates World While US Busy with ‘Never-Ending Woke Competition.'”
If Rep. Liz Cheney thought the “strange new respect” she garnered from the left-wing media over the last several months would be long-lasting, she’s learning quickly that’s not the case. Apparently, simply being anti-Trump doesn’t mean much if you choose to not toe the line on every single issue.
With that said, I regret to inform all of you that the honeymoon is over. Who could have possibly foreseen this except everyone paying attention? This is the problem with seeking backslaps from Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, The Washington Post, and the rest of the mainstream media. As a Republican, you are always just a tool
Prediction: The nays of Texas will likely be upon him. The obvious electoral disaster ahead hasn’t stopped Democrats in the Lone Star State from attempting to draft Robert “Beto” O’Rourke for a gubernatorial bid, though. The Associated Press reports this morning that O’Rourke is giving it serious consideration, despite running to the hard Left in the presidential primary in 2019:
There’s no road trip, no soul searching. No beard or blogging. But Beto O’Rourke is making a political life decision again.
Three years after becoming Democrats’ breakout star out of Texas, and a year removed from crashing back to Earth in a short-lived presidential run, O’Rourke is again weighing another campaign
A Bronx man busted for firing at a pair of NYPD officers outside a cell phone store was shooting to kill, police said Monday. Cops arrested Calvin Peterkin, 39, charging him with attempted murder of a police officer in the Wednesday night confrontation. The officers were responding to a call to the Boost Mobile store on E. 174th St. and Vyse Ave. in East Morrisania when they came across Peterkin outside. He had an ongoing dispute with the store’s workers, and was waving a gun at them, police said. When the officers arrived at about 6:30 p.m., he shot at them and they returned fire,