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Ryan Morik
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5/19/2023 5:00:36 PM
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Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown has died at the age of 87.
Brown is one of the greatest running backs of all time, having won three MVPs (including in his rookie season in 1957) and being named to nine All-Pro teams, eight of which he was a First-teamer.
Brown led the NFL in rushing yards eight times and rushing touchdowns on five occasions - he won the NFL Championship in 1964. His 106 rushing touchdowns are the sixth-most all-time, and his 12,312 rushing yards rank the 11th most in NFL history. He was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Hot Air,
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Beege Welborn
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5/19/2023 4:53:19 PM
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Feeling pret-tee smug right now about my home state, yes sirree, Bob.
And not for the first time, either. But in the middle of some pretty wretched economic numbers and an absolutely abysmal administration doing it’s best to sink the country in a morass of fiscal distress and racial division, all the while doing their damnedest to deride and destroy everything Americans once held dear, Florida is like an oasis of calm, sanity, courage, and FREEDOM.
It’s sure looking as if we Floridians aren’t the only ones who think so, either.
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida has the lowest unemployment rate among the top 10 largest states
CNBC,
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Michael Sheetz
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5/19/2023 3:21:11 PM
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WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos has his NASA moon ticket.
The billionaire's space company, Blue Origin, won a key contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Friday to develop a crewed lunar lander for delivering astronauts to the moon's surface later this decade under the agency's Artemis program. The effort is effectively a more than $7 billion project. NASA's contract award is worth just over $3.4 billion, officials said Friday, and Blue Origin Vice President John Couluris said the company will contribute "well north" of the contract's value as well.
"We're making an additional investment in the infrastructure
Reuters,
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Mike Stone
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Humeyra Pamuk
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5/19/2023 3:16:26 PM
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President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that Washington supports joint allied training programs for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, senior U.S. officials said, a significant endorsement as Kyiv seeks to boost its air power against Russia.
Training on the U.S.-made jets will take place in Europe and will require months to complete, one of the officials said. U.S. officials have estimated the most expeditious time needed for training and delivery of F-16s at 18 months. "As the training takes place over the coming months, our coalition of countries participating in this effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide,
National Review,
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Jeff Zymeri
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5/19/2023 2:57:18 PM
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Debt-ceiling talks were paused Friday afternoon after Republican negotiators walked out, blaming the White House for making unreasonable demands.
“Until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we’re not gonna sit here and talk to ourselves,” explained Representative Garret Graves (R., La.,), who was tapped to lead the negotiations.
“We decided to press pause because it’s just not productive,” Graves said, adding he doesn’t know if talks will resume over the weekend.
Late last month, House Republicans narrowly passed a bill to raise the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling by an additional $1.5 trillion. The Limit, Save, Grow Act
Hot Air,
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Jazz Shaw
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5/19/2023 9:33:32 AM
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While Joe Biden is jawboning with G7 leaders in Japan, the China-Central Asia Summit is underway in Xi’an today. Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the conference today with a speech that Western leaders and the rest of the world should be paying attention to. Xi is looking to firm up China’s ties with Central Asian nations such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This is part of his nation’s Belt and Road initiative, designed to expand China’s economic and military influence as part of a challenge to American global hegemony. But one major part of this announcement should be pointed out to the climate cult
Breitbart,
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Ian Hanchett
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On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Surveillance,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to criticisms that President Joe Biden should have met with House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) about the debt ceiling sooner so that the President wouldn’t have to cancel parts of his overseas trip by stating that raising the debt limit “is a congressional duty, they should just simply do their job.”
Bloomberg TV Washington Correspondent Annmarie Hordern asked, “Critics will say then the President didn’t manage this correctly, he should have been speaking to Speaker McCarthy earlier so he didn’t have to cancel his foreign trip, but do you think the President
National Review,
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Jeff Zymeri
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5/19/2023 8:52:21 AM
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Justice Neil Gorsuch has penned a passionate polemic against the emergency powers that were widely used during the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that while they may have solved some problems, they created many others.
Gorsuch’s statement came in the Supreme Court’s final word on the effort of a group of states to challenge the end of Title 42, which allowed migrants to be expelled on public-health grounds. Last December, the conservative justices blocked the administration from lifting Title 42 and scheduled oral arguments. However, the justices removed the case from the argument calendar in February after the Biden administration announced it planned to end
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Goodin
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Nikki Schwab
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is now expected to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima in person, where he is likely to make asks for additional military aid.
Zelensky's participation has been rumored for days and comes as G7 leaders plan to announce a new round of tough economic sanctions on Russia in an attempt to cripple Vladimir Putin to the point where he could end the war in Ukraine. The Financial Times first confirmed Zelensky would make the trip to Japan, reporting that he would be engaged in meetings on Sunday. The report said Zelensky would attempt to shore up support with non-G7 countries
Red State,
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Bonchie
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On Thursday, news broke that Disney had canceled an office complex project that was set to add 2,000 jobs to Florida’s economy. That was the headline at least. Of course, there was more to the story.
In reality, the project had been placed on hold back in 2021 and postponed to 2026 due to various financial concerns. When current CEO Bog Iger took back over the beleaguered entertainment company, that was the final nail in the coffin because he long thought the entire project was a terrible investment. Obviously, he’s right, as building large office buildings post-COVID is like setting money on fire. The fact that Disney has been hemorrhaging money
Breitbart,
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Jacob Bliss
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) job approval has soared 18 points since becoming Speaker of the House earlier this year, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.
The poll found that McCarthy has a job approval rating of a positive ten as Speaker of the House, which is up 18 points since the end of last year (December 17-20), when he was still House minority leader — the month before he was elected Speaker. Forty-six percent of the respondents said they strongly or somewhat approved of McCarthy’s handling his job as the Speaker of the House when asked by the pollsters. In comparison, only 36 percent said they disapproved, and 19 percent
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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5/18/2023 10:16:54 PM
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Do Internet platforms need Section 230 to shield them from liability? Should it be taken down as social-media platforms increasingly apply editorial control over content, arguably transforming them from platforms to publishers? Don’t expect explicit answers from two decisions handed down by the Supreme Court today, both unanimously rejecting liability claims without the use of Section 230 protections.
However, that may be its own answer. Both Google and Twitter had reason to sigh with relief, although as it turns out the two cases turned out to be anything but divisive: