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WASHINGTON— As it has been for nearly 16 months, longer than any time in the nation’s history, the U.S. Capitol is closed to most public visitors.The one-two punch of the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered the Capitol’s doors in the spring of 2020 and the deadly insurrection by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6 has left the icon of American democracy unopen to all but a select few.As the rest of the nation emerges this July Fourth holiday from the pandemic for cookouts and fireworks that President Joe Biden is encouraging from the White House, the people’s house faces new threats of violence, virus variants and a more difficult moment.
Country rock star Aaron Lewis’s patriotic anthem “Am I the Only One” soared up the iTunes charts, passing Big Red Machine’s “Renegade” featuring Taylor Swift, over the July 4th weekend. Two versions of Lewis’s song, the explicit version and radio edit, took the second and third spots on iTunes’ Top Songs on Saturday, pushing Swift to number five.(Song List) The patriotic anthem, dedicated to “all the patriots,” calls out left-wing activists and slams those who tore statutes down during the Black Lives Matter riots last year.(Photo) “Am I the only one here tonight, shakin’ my head and think’ something ain’t right,” Lewis sings. “Is it just me,
Former President Donald Trump demanded to know who killed Ashli Babbitt during a rally in Florida at the Sarasota Fairgrounds on Saturday night.Trump also pointed out the hypocrisy of so many January 6 protesters being imprisoned, while the same was not true about the Black Lives Matter and Antifa militants that destroyed cities across the nation during the summer of 2020.“Who shot Ashli Babbitt? Who shot Ashli Babbitt? Who? Who Shot Ashli Babbitt?” Trump asked. “We all saw the hand. We saw the gun.”
America’s being hit on all sides this weekend.While the country celebrates the Fourth of July, three major catastrophes are threatening the nation on all coasts. While two of the catastrophes are “natural disasters” one is manmade and all could have disastrous repercussions. As Toby Keith writes in his new song, “Happy Birthday America (Whatever’s Left of You)”.
The East CoastFlorida, which is still reeling from the Surfside condo collapse, is set to be hit by Tropical Storm Elsa on Sunday and Monday. It has already wreaked havoc in the Caribbean and is said to be gaining strength. Rescue teams for the Surfside complex have already been called off and the state
Former President Donald Trump accused New York prosecutors of behaving like a 'communist dictatorship targeting political opponents' as he railed against criminal charges leveled against his company during a rally in Florida.He unloaded his fury after a week that included seeing an employee paraded into court in handcuffs with a fiery rally speech on Saturday night in Sarasota, Florida.Trump hit all his favorite targets, from immigration to fake news, but reserved special fury for prosecutors in New York.'It's reminiscent of a communist dictatorship targeting their political opponents ... fabricating charges to try and silence them, abusing the justice system and leaking out information on a daily basis
Information technology company Kaseya warned its 40,000 clients that there was a “potential attack” on its VSA tool, which is used to manage computers remotely. The company posted a security advisory to its help desk site, urging customers to shut down their servers running the service:
We are experiencing a potential attack against the VSA that has been limited to a small number of on-premise customers only as of 2:00 PM EDT today.
We are in the process of investigating the root cause of the incident with an abundance of caution but we recommend that you IMMEDIATELY shutdown your VSA server until you receive further notice from us.
President Joe Biden took notes out of his jacket when asked about “the most recent hack by the Russians” during an ostensibly unscripted visit to a farmer’s market on Saturday in Central Lake, MI.
A woman, unseen in video of the moment, asked the president, “With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this means that…?”
Biden interrupted the woman before she could complete her question.
“We’re not sure it’s the Russians,” the president interjected. “I got a brief while I was on the plane. That’s why I was late getting off the plane. I got a brief. I’ll be in better shape
President Joe Biden’s administration has announced a federal initiative to bring back to the United States illegal aliens who were deported for committing crimes but who are the relatives of American service members, as well as Veterans and service members who were deported after committing crimes.
On July 4th weekend, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed the details of the initiative designed to bring back to the U.S. illegal alien service members, their illegal alien relatives, and Veterans who were deported after having committed crimes.
“The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the profound commitment and sacrifice that service members
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. -- The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is trying to catch an exotic cat that’s on the loose in Historic Brookhaven. The agency has received at least three reports this week about a serval, which is native to Africa, roaming the neighborhood that borders Atlanta and Brookhaven. One of those reports came from Kristine Frank. “I’m laying in bed and I hear a thump on my bed and I’m thinking my dog is 15-years-old,” Frank recalled. “She can’t get up on our bed anymore.” On Wednesday, Frank, who lives off Club Drive NE, woke up to the cat
Traverse City, Mich.—President Joe Biden stayed mum on policy during a Saturday trip to Michigan, focusing instead on cherries—and cherry pie and cherry ice cream—and voters who were mask-free as coronavirus restrictions have eased.(Snip)Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer greeted Biden when he arrived midday in Traverse City, which is hosting the National Cherry Festival, an event that attracted Presidents Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford in the past. They skipped the festival, however, in favor of a cherry farm in nearby Antrim County, where Biden pitched his immigration plans when chatting with two couples from Guatemala who were picking fruit.
DENVER — More than 150 fire scientists signed a letter this week urging the western part of the U.S. to forgo the use of fireworks this Fourth of July. The letter included scientists and college professors, 15 of whom were from Colorado universities including CU-Boulder, Colorado State University and Colorado College. "The July 4th weekend in the United States this year will be like no other we’ve experienced in the nation’s history," the letter reads in part. "The extreme heat impacting the northwestern United States and Canada this week comes on top of an already record-setting drought across much of
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Actor Bill Pullman attempts to lift America’s soul and remind us who we really are in a rousing “Independence Day”-themed ad called “Go Fourth America,” reprising his famous speech from the alien-fighting, patriotic 1996 movie.Twenty-five years later, Pullman is once again behind the podium as President Thomas Whitmore from the movie “Independence Day” that also starred Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith. But this time, instead of fighting off aliens who want to eradicate humanity, Pullman is calling on America to get vaccinated and once again celebrate the 4th of July, holding cookouts and getting out of our homes to be together once more.
Remnants of New York City’s most horrific hour will likely remain behind in Afghanistan even as the final American troops leave the struggling nation after 20 years, according to reports. New York firefighters and police officers delivered debris from the World Trade Center at Bagram Air Base in December 2001, just days after the Taliban was toppled for harboring Sept. 11 terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden.A steel beam from the World Trade Center was erected at the base after being donated by residents of Breezy Point Queens in 2010. It has since become a base landmark, emblazoned with “WTC” stacked on top of “9 11 01.”
Former President Donald Trump will pay tribute to the victims of the Surfside building collapse at his rally in Sarasota, Florida, tonight and praise the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis.Trump arrives in his adopted home state after a turbulent week that saw his company charged with tax fraud and amid reports that he had fallen out with DeSantis, a rising star of the Republican Party and possible 2024 rival.But he is expected to open his speech by reflecting on the tragedy further south in Florida, where the death toll of 24 is expected to rise with 124 people still missing.
Once, that would have been a statement of the obvious. Today, such a belief could get you fired. Now, a forensic book by a senior writer at The Economist argues the gender self-identification lobby is harming children, women – and trans people themselves. Gender self-identification is often described as this generation’s civil rights battle. But for a man to declare ‘I am a woman’, and for everyone to be compelled to agree, is not, as with genuine civil rights movements, about extending privileges unjustly hoarded by a favoured group to a marginalised one.
A Vatican judge indicted a cardinal and 9 other suspects on charges of money laundering, fraud, and abuse of office Saturday, according to the Independent.The suspects are accused of withholding millions of euros from the Holy See and investing money that was donated to the pope for charity work, the Independent reported. Italian broker Gianluigi Torzi is accused of using 15 million euros that he withheld from the Vatican to invest in a London building in 2018. Former Holy See official Cardinal Angelo Becciu was indicted for helping organize the investment when he was the Secretariat of State’s chief of staff, according to Independent.
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President Trump released a statement yesterday regarding the Democrats’ ramping up attorneys to steal elections: The Democrats are WEAPONIZING Radical Left prosecutors against the Republican Party in order to STEAL ELECTIONS. We cannot let them get away with this. They are destroying our country.(Tweet) The Democrats are not about the truth, the country, or the people in the country. The party of slavery is about power and always has been. Their attorney Marc Elias has spent his last few years working to insert illegal drop boxes in elections across the country so they could just stuff them with made-up fraudulent ballots and steal elections.
Taliban forces in Afghanistan have banned women from leaving the house alone and forced men to grow beards as US troops withdraw from the war-torn country. The Taliban has unleashed a reign of terror in recent weeks and seized control of dozens of areas in a bid to regain power as the last of American troops left on Friday. The terror group has seized control of a third of Afghanistan - and most of that territory was captured in the last two weeks. The people of Afghanistan face being plunged back beneath the rule of a brutal regime who enforce strict .
My friends, there are anti-American forces within our own borders working constantly to undermine some of the very oldest of American institutions. I am sure this comes of no surprise, but we must always expose them for the hateful terrorists they are.Over at Business Insider, columnist Josh Barro has written one of the worst of these attacks and it cannot go un-rebutted. The title of his piece, “Admit it: Grilling is bad“, is bad enough, but the content of the column is so much worse. The opening gives away the hate and ignorance. There’s a reason you do most of your cooking inside: Grills are impossible to keep clean, they
Joe Biden has warned that the US will retaliate if it finds out Russia was behind the mass cyberattack that hit at least 200 firms in the run-up to July 4 weekend. The president told reporters Saturday that it is not yet clear who is behind the latest cybersecurity breach to strike American businesses but insisted that he 'will respond' if it is tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin.'We're not sure who it is,' he said while he celebrated the start of July 4 weekend at a cherry farm in Central Lake, Michigan.'The initial thinking was it was not the Russian government but we're not sure yet.'
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The England players were tonight greeted with a cacophony of boos, whistles and cheers as they took the knee before kick-off in the quarter finals of Euro 2020.
Ukraine stayed on their feet as England continued with the Black Lives Matter gesture ahead of the quarter final clash at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
Some speculated online that the crowd could have been booing Ukraine for refusing to kneel, but boos have thundered from Three Lions fans at every game thus far, irrespective of whether or not the opposition has joined England in kneeling.
The disapproval for the gesture comes despite the repeated pleas of manager Gareth Southgate and the Football Association.
There’s definitely somebody leaking stuff on Kamala Harris, trying to warn people off of her. We’ve covered a few stories already about how folks are leaking what chaos there is in her office, and how some staffers even dumped her and quit.
That raises interesting questions about who’s leaking — and why now. But, it also raises further concerns about her abilities. We’ve already seen, without those reports, that she’s a disaster with how she handles things, such as how she’s dealt or more exactly, not dealt with, the border crisis. With Joe Biden such a mess, her problems are obviously a deep concern when she’s the back-up.
The whisper campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris has its origins among White House aides who increasingly see her as incapable of defeating any Republican challenger in 2024, including Donald Trump.
Recent missteps and gaffes by Harris at the border and with reporters have top Democrats worried that Harris simply isn’t up to the task of heading the Democratic ticket if Biden — who will be 81 if he runs — decides to stand aside.
It’s not just the gaffes. Biden aides have been undermining Harris’s authority in her own office, using recent revelations about its dysfunction to raise serious questions about her competence and temperament.
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Wimbledon is here at last, after the missing 2020 year. What struck me watching the French Open a couple of weeks before on TV was just how much rubbish I had to listen to if I kept the sound on. There are now too many matches broadcast, which means more and more commentators spouting off about the game in the middle of rallies. I don’t know what it is that makes viewers accept these nonstop blabbermouths who interrupt their viewing without raising hell with the networks. We’ve become a nation of sheep, accepting everything so-called experts throw at us. Televised sporting events do not actually need commentators except before
Gov. Cuomo’s youngest daughter isn’t just out and proud, she’s getting specific about her sexual orientation—sort of. Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, 23, who came out in an Instagram post last month as “queer,” declared herself “demisexual” this week during an appearance on Instagram. “Demisexual people only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond,” according to WebMD. “When I was in elementary school, I feared that I was lesbian. When I was in middle school, I came out to my family and close friends as bisexual. When I was in high school, I discovered pansexuality and thought, ‘That’s the flag for me.’
Swimming caps designed for natural black hair won't be allowed at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the sport's world governing body saying they are unsuitable because they do not 'following the natural form of the head.'
Critics have slammed the decision as racist, with one calling it an 'example of the whiteness of swimming.' The British brand Soul Cap sought to have its products officially recognized by FINA, but its application submitted last year was rejected. The company makes extra-large caps designed to protect thick, curly and voluminous hair.(Snip) The Switzerland-based governing body said Friday that it is currently reviewing the situation
Country singer Aaron Lewis released a new single on Friday that he dedicated to "all the patriots."
Released just in time for the Fourth of July holiday, the 49-year-old former Staind frontman hints at his discontent with America's leadership and slams left-wing activists who have disrespected the country's flag and demolished statues. [SNIP] "This one’s for all the patriots," Lewis tweeted on Friday to announce the single's release.
At one point in the four-and-a-half-minute song, Lewis rips Bruce Springsteen.
Students and other young people walking around the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., struggled to say whether they were "proud" to be American ahead of 4th of July weekend.
Ophelie Jacobson, a reporter with Campus Reform — a conservative news site and higher-education watchdog — walked around Georgetown asking young people in the area whether they were proud to be American and whether the United States is the greatest country in the world.
"I feel sorry for those young students," Lily Tang Williams, an American citizen who immigrated from China, told "Fox & Friends" on Saturday in response to the video. "They remind me of my past, living in communist China."
A Pensacola man allegedly solicited advice from another man at a Gulf Breeze hotel about where he could purchase a “young Hispanic child,” according to an arrest report. Aleksandar Avdulaj, 49, was arrested Tuesday and charged with engaging in human trafficking for labor and services of a child.(Snip) While on scene, the officer spoke with a man who said Avdulaj asked him if he knew where to buy a child. The man said Avdulaj approached him while smelling like beer in the hotel’s parking lot and asked him “if I had a little Mexican girl that I wanted to sell for cash,” according to the report.
President Biden’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Germany is an Ivy League president whose university paid him nearly $1 million for an honorary professor gig where he was seldom seen, it was revealed Friday. University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who has headed the Philadelphia-based institution since 2004, is the first envoy to a G-7 nation to be nominated by Biden.(Snip)In July 2019, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Biden was paid $911,643 by Penn. The student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, counted just nine on-campus appearances by the then-former senator and vice president between February 2017 and February 2019. Five of those
Angela Merkel's immigration policies are 'fatal' and Germany is 'declining politically and economically', the former head of the country's spy agency has warned. Hans-Georg Maassen, who ran the Office for the Protection of the Constitution until 2018, slammed the Chancellor's border controls in a scathing interview. The 58-year-old blasted Mrs Merkel's decision to let in around 1.2million migrants in 2015 while he was in office under her.
He claimed Germans 'cannot understand why ever more people are coming into this country even though they obviously have no right to asylum'. His comments come just a week after a Somali immigrant
A little-noticed study says government orders to “shelter in place” during the COVID-19 fight did not save lives and spurred an uptick in excess deaths in some places, especially overseas. Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the University of Southern California studied excess mortality from all causes, the virus or otherwise, in 43 countries and the 50 U.S. states that imposed shelter-in-place, or “SIP,” policies. In short, the orders didn’t work.(Snip)Researchers counted all excess deaths to avoid a messy debate over what constituted a COVID-19 death. They pointed to reported upticks in deaths of despair—including drug overdoses, homicides, and unintentional injuries
The Biden administration’s Executive Office of the President (EOP) has 560 employees and a payroll of close to $50 million — the highest of any administration in at least 12 years, according to data released Thursday. While President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are making their legally specified annual salaries of $400,000 and $235,100, respectively, more than 250 other officials are making at least six figures this year. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, for example, is one of 22 West Wing employees pulling in a taxpayer-funded salary of $180,000.
ROME - The Vatican’s bioethics academy and the World Medical Association on Friday called for an all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy and correct the “myths and disinformation” that are slowing the fight against the coronavirus.(Snip)They demanded that “all relevant stakeholders exhaust all efforts to...confront vaccine hesitancy by sending a clear message about the safety and necessity of vaccines and counteracting vaccine myths and disinformation.”(Snip)At a news conference Friday, representatives of the groups strongly rejected claims and questions about vaccine safety and ethics from reporters representing conservative and right-wing Catholic media organizations who complained that vaccine skeptics weren’t included among the speakers.
The conservative Presbyterian Church in America voted Thursday to disqualify all gay men from serving in its ministry. The 1,400-400 vote to change its governing document came at the denomination’s 48th General Assembly, held this week in St. Louis. The rule change, known as “Overture 23,” will go to local church bodies known as “presbyteries” for a vote before a second round of convention balloting next year that would place the language in the denomination’s “Book of Church Order,” which governs PCA practice.(Snip)The two votes are part of a continuing trend in the PCA, which has almost 400,000 members in the U.S., to uphold biblical views
As we head toward this weekend's 245th anniversary of American independence, critical race theory has emerged as the dominant subject gripping and dividing the nation. The threshold question, itself the subject of rancorous and oftentimes disingenuous debate, is what the term "critical race theory" even refers to. When this semantic debate surfaces, proponents usually attempt two things at once. First, they accuse their CRT-skeptical interlocutors of being bigots, white supremacists or apologists who want to deliberately muddle and whitewash America's complex -- and at times tragic -- history of race relations.
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The New Civil Liberties Alliance is fighting the systemic threats of the administrative state. With the Supreme Court shutting down for the summer, NCLA pointed out six wins over liberal bureaucrats and politicians.
The alliance announced, "As the U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2020 Term comes to a close, the New Civil Liberties Alliance is celebrating an unblemished 6-0 record for the amicus curiae briefs we filed in defense of civil liberties. The high court’s administrative power cases produced several unlikely majorities, including two NCLA amicus wins in the form of unanimous opinions written by Justice Sotomayor and Justice Breyer. Justice Gorsuch even quoted from NCLA’s amicus brief in his separate opinion
Hunter Biden used the perks of the vice presidency — parties, meetings with Joe Biden and flights on Air Force Two — to pursue business deals with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim while his father was in office, records show. Hunter’s involvement with Slim, at one time the world’s richest man, commenced soon after a White House state dinner the magnate attended in May 2010, along with Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, to honor Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
A statue of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus outside a Downtown Jersey City Catholic church was vandalized and stolen Thursday night. Church officials said surveillance cameras recorded the vandalism and the Jersey City police have already been notified. “The gentleman was seen grabbing a brick and then throwing it at the statue,” said Nicholas Grillo, the church’s music director. “He broke it, then packed all the damage up and took it away.”(Snip) Just two weeks ago, a larger Virgin Mary statue, located on the opposite side of the building, was broken when someone tried to rip the statue off its pedestal.
A bombshell report released just last fall revealed extensive concrete deterioration and corrosion of steel reinforcements had been found at the now collapsed Champlain Towers South.
The damage had grown so bad that repair work was put on hold over fears that even performing it could endanger the stability of surrounding buildings.
That ominous assessment was carried out in October 2020 by the firm Concrete Protection and Restoration and Morabito Consultants.
It was led by structural engineer Frank Morabito, who both found several issues including a potentially deep deterioration of concrete near the pool area
Hours after Vice President Kamala Harris snapped at NBC News anchor Lester Holt last month in an interview from Guatemala, she was still showing signs of exasperation with questions about why she was not also going to the U.S.-Mexico border in her role dealing with waves of migrants to the U.S. (Snip) It was the kind of moment that has even supporters questioning her political acumen — underscoring why Harris, nearly six months into her term as a history-making vice president, consistently lags in polls behind President Biden, has failed to get the same honeymoon with voters, draws more critical media
In the theater of the absurd that passes for wokery, they ban words and phrases that purportedly trigger unpleasant emotions in the audience. These include:
“Mumbo jumbo” because it’s a corruption of the name of the African god Maamajomboo. Who knew?
“The most qualified person should get the job” because it triggers feelings of inferiority in persons who are not the most qualified.
“Peanut gallery” because it triggers memories of the old days when black people sat there and ate peanuts. Don’t use that phrase, especially around a black person because the painful memories may reduce him (er, I mean them – see below) to tears.
“Cannibal” because it triggers the Carib tribe
The projected path of Hurricane Elsa shifted slightly away from South Florida on Saturday morning as the system continued to barrel through the Caribbean, but forecasters caution there’s still considerable uncertainty about the storm’s likely course. The storm’s forecast cone shifted west, removing almost all of coastal South Florida. But some models still show it striking the region, and the National Hurricane Center said there’s unusual uncertainty in the long-term track. And the cone shows only the possible locations of the storm’s center, which means hurricane-force or tropical-force winds could extend well outside the cone. Elsa’s forward speed of 31
Massachusetts police have taken nine 'armed and dangerous' men into custody after they fled from police during a traffic stop overnight. A state trooper spotted the group - who claimed they were members of 'Rise of The Moors' at the side of the I-95 between Wakefield and Reading at 1.30 Saturday morning, and asked them for identification. The men, who were dressed in tactical-style gear and armed with both pistols and rifles, refused to comply with orders to drop their weapons and ran into woodland by the side of the road.
A Massachusetts man was arrested for allegedly stabbing a rabbi eight times outside of a Jewish day school in Boston, local reports said.
Khaled Awad, 24, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer in connection with Thursday’s broad-daylight attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, Boston 25 News reported. Investigators said Awad approached Noginski at around 1 p.m. outside the Shaloh House, a Brighton institution that serves the area’s Russian Jewish community. He allegedly pointed a gun at the rabbi and ordered him to hand over the keys to a school van, CBS Boston reported.
With its decision Thursday in the voting rights case of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the court closed its term with a decision that will resonate not just legally but politically for years to come.
The 6-3 decision upheld Arizona’s new voting rules in Arizona over claims of racial discrimination. While the court said it would be imprudent to create a sweeping rule for all future such cases, it was equally imprudent for the Biden administration to ignore the forthcoming decision in filing a new challenge to Georgia’s new voting rights. The lawsuit against Georgia’s new voting rules was clearly timed to beat the court to the punch,
President Biden couldn’t even draw a big in-person crowd at a teachers’ union convention on Friday evening, telling a mostly empty hall in Washington that teachers deserve a pay raise. Only about 50 members of leadership and staff of the National Education Association were in the cavernous hall at the Washington Convention Center when Mr. Biden and first lady Jill Biden, an educator with close ties to the NEA, took the stage. “Hello, everyone,” Mr. Biden said to laughter.(Snip)“She spoke to a largely empty hall, talking about the dedication of teachers to keeping students safe this past year, and for teaching remotely,” according to the pool report.
He used to be commander in chief, but former President Obama says the "top dog" in his household is definitely his wife. "I'm generally the brunt of every joke in my household," Obama said of life with wife Michelle and the couple's two adult daughters, in a Thursday interview on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's Spotify podcast, "Armchair Expert." "Michelle, she's the top dog because they're scared of her," he quipped of the former first lady and his daughters, Malia, 22, and Sasha, 20. "Michelle always says that you have to have at least one parent who the kids think
A major conservative book publisher accused the New York Times of purposefully excluding author Michael Knowles’ book on censorship from its best seller list Friday.
“There are two kinds of best seller lists,” Regnery publisher Tom Spence told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “There are those that are based on the number of books that have been sold that week. And then there is the New York Times best seller list.”Knowles’ book “Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,” published June 22, was the top of the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller list for the week ending June 26, but did not appear in the New York Times ranking of the top 15 best-selling
Americans are giving President Biden dismal ratings on his handling of rising crime, a new poll found.The ABC News/Washington Post poll released Friday morning revealed that just 38 percent of Americans approve of the 46th commander-in-chief’s response to recent crime spikes nationwide.On the other side, 48 percent said they disapproved.As crime rates have continued to surge, lawmakers have been quick to point fingers to avoid their party taking blame.Republicans have largely argued that Democrats’ efforts to defund the police, remove qualified immunity for police officers and
The recent Bruce Springsteen concert celebrates the return to post-COVID normalcy...for some. Everyone attending this event was required to show proof of vaccination, which raises some uncomfortable "what if" questions.(snip) As we've yet to learn from history, there are countless hypothetical combinations of excuses, rationalizations, and reasons people "identify" as something (or someone) they are not. In years past, the word "identify" usually meant "pretend." As an eight-year-old, I frequently "identified" as Superman, "flying" around the neighborhood with a magic beach towel cape.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld two longstanding provisions of Arizona election law, provoking widespread trepidation among the Democrats. In a 6-3 ruling authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held that it was permissible for the state to limit ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting. Such limitations are commonplace throughout the country, but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) took Arizona to court claiming that they violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The DNC lost but appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which inevitably ruled against Arizona. SCOTUS overturned that ruling. The panicked Democrats vehemently denounced the Supreme Court’s decision as an undisguised assault on democracy.
A former New York administrative judge resigned and apologized Friday over a Halloween costume he wore in 1988 of “a well-known public figure of color,” according to a press release.
Former administrative judge Craig Doran said he resigned as administrative judge for the Rochester region when a photo from a Halloween party reportedly was circulated. The statement didn’t say who Doran dressed up as.
“I did not comprehend at the time the hurtful nature of my actions,” Doran said in a statement. “I know now that an act of this nature is considered to be racist.
Vice President Kamala Harris is facing White House sabotage as the establishment media lay out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s path to the presidency.
With Harris’s history of “mistreatment of employees and dissent” before entering the White House, the establishment media have begun reporting on the infighting and “sabotage” impacting the office of the vice president.
“It’s a whisper campaign designed to sabotage her,” Biden’s senior adviser Cedric Richmond said, admitting Friday to the Hill the infighting is real.
How do you make decisions in our new Internet world? Most of us just go to Google and type in their question, “Is it safe to get the COVID-19 vaccine?” The overwhelming response is “Yes!” (snip) But when you go to an uncensored video website like Bitchute.com or Rumble.com, you see a totally different result: scores of doctors and scientists warning about the danger from the shots, and hundreds of videos from real people who have had horrific side effects (snip) Whom do you believe, doctors, scientists and real people telling their stories, or big-tech-controlled media pushing a narrative
An Ohio private school has expelled three students whose moms led a coalition campaigning against Critical Race Theory being taught to their children.
Columbus Academy sent a letter to parents Andrea Gross and Amy Gonzalez informing them that their children will not be reenrolled at the school, where tuition fees cost up to $30,000 a year.
The school said Gross and Gonzalez leveled 'false and misleading attacks' on the school and its leadership through their 'inflammatory' campaign, including making claims that students were being subjected to bomb sniffing dogs on campus.
Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry's history of offensive tweets has been uncovered after she snubbed the American national anthem during trials last weekend.
Berry, 32, made a variety of tasteless jokes and observations in messages dating back up to ten years, but which are still visible on her account.
The athlete - who insisted that the National Anthem is racist - posted tweets mocking about Chinese, Mexican and white people.
Posts also include ill-judged jokes about rape, suggestions she would stomp on a child, as well as using the word 'retarded', widely seen as being offensive and disrespectful.
The Army and other branches of the military are preparing to administer mandatory COVID-19 vaccines as early as Sept. 1. This order is pending full Food and Drug Administration approval of the COIVD-19 vaccines, now under emergency use approval. The Army Times is reporting that the directive came from an executive order sent by the Department of the Army Headquarters.
Army Times obtained a portion of a recent update to HQDA EXORD 225-21, COVID-19 Steady-State Operations. Apparently, the Pentagon assumes that full approval from the FDA will come by September. “Commanders will continue COVID-19 vaccination operations and prepare for a directive to mandate COVID-19 vaccination
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) this week revealed several instances where service members were forced to classify themselves by race and socio-economic status during diversity and inclusion training.
In one instance, Crenshaw said soldiers were forced to wear personal identification badges that listed their race, ethnicity, social class, and other things, during at training at Fort Bliss in Texas.
Crenshaw said the badges reduced soldiers to a list of characteristics that have “nothing to do with their service or their training or the content of their character.” He added:
Most soldiers do not believe that they are the sum of identity groups and it’s absurd
In the current midterm election cycle, more Republican women have announced a prospective run for House seats across the country, according to reports.
Wall Street Journal reported that moves like this fuel the confidence in the party’s plans to send a large number of women to the House, building off their successes in the 2020 election cycle. Despite the current pace of Republican women stepping up to run in the House, Democrats have had more female Members of Congress for years.
In the last election, Republican women were among some of the most anticipated candidates to watch across the nation. Most notably, of the 14 Republican wins
There seem to be two types of Republicans – those who learned something from the Trump era and those who didn’t. Unfortunately, there are far too many members of the GOP political class who appear to have been in a coma from 2016-2020, and the rush to return to the pre-Trump status quo has been apparent.
As the minority party heading into 2022 with strong tailwinds, Republicans have one job. That job is to be the opposition. That means not making “deals” that worsen the plight of working-class voters in order to hand Joe Biden and his allies a huge win. GOP voters do not care about being bought off
The Biden team is a constant exercise in Orwellian thought. The truth is frequently the opposite of what they say.
Just in the past few days, we’ve been told that Republicans were the ones who wanted to defund the police, despite Jen Psaki not being able to name one Republican who was in favor of it, while it’s been Democrats across the country for the past year pushing it. Then there was the effort by Psaki to try to convince Americans they really weren’t feeling those rising prices this year at the July 4th cookout because they were saving 16 cents on hot dogs (which wasn’t even true).
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding two Arizona voting provisions has brought a sharp rebuke from the White House. Joe Biden issued a statement that begins, “I am deeply disappointed in today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court that undercuts the Voting Rights Act, and upholds what Justice Kagan called ‘a significant race-based disparity in voting opportunities.’”
The Department of Justice issued a separate statement on the decision. It promises that “the Department of Justice will never stop working to protect the democracy to which all Americans are entitled,” and urges Congress to “enact additional legislation to provide more effective protection for every American’s right to vote.”