[ad_1] Who gets to determine what’s “misinformation” and what’s not? As social media companies, under pressure, move in a direction of imposing stricter rules about permissible content on their platforms, this is the question users should be asking. Earlier this month, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the video giant would be removing videos that go
Month: April 2020
[ad_1] On Monday, Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity publicly demanded The New York Times not only issue a correction, but apologize for a false and heinous April 18 column implicating him in the death of 74-year-old Brooklyn resident Joe Joyce from the coronavirus. Tuesday morning, The Times issued a statement in which they declined
[ad_1] President Donald Trump reacts to a question from a reporter during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, March 20, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Today’s crop of journalists don’t bother to hide their partisanship. Almost the entire country is relieved that the president has shortened his daily press briefings and reduced his
[ad_1] All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here”—referring to fascism). It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that. But the ease with which police
[ad_1] Flag in front of Iran’s Foreign Ministry building in Tehran (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters) Though the Trump administration has already withdrawn from the deal, there is still a clear path to scuttling it at the U.N. Is the United States still a participant in the Iran nuclear deal? Well, yes and no. The U.S. is seeking
[ad_1] An emergency medical technician carries equipment near where people wait to be tested for COVID-19 outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y., March 26, 2020. (Stefan Jeremiah/Reuters) The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. hit 1,000,000 Tuesday, with the death toll nearing 60,000 as various state governments debate when to reopen
[ad_1] People wait in line outside NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health Morrisania neighborhood health center, in Bronx, N.Y., April 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Obscure statistical concepts are driving the news these days. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he coronavirus pandemic has thrust data-wranglers into a national spotlight they normally enjoy only in the runup to a
[ad_1] Potatoes amid the coronavirus outbreak in Picabo, Idaho, April 23, 2020 (Lisa Philips/Reuters) Headline of the Morning Jolt, Friday: “Eat More Potatoes, America.” The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, Friday: “The IFBF has also sought to make large purchases of potatoes to help the state’s farmers while also providing badly needed food assistance to residents
[ad_1] She’s not going away. While the mainstream media has barely covered Tara Reade’s allegations that then-Sen. Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked for him as a 29-year-old staffer — and top TV talking heads like CNN’s Anderson Cooper refuse to ask the presumptive presidential nominee about the claims — Reade is upping her
[ad_1] An Iranian woman wears a face mask following the coronavirus outbreak, Tehran, Iran, March 5, 2020. (WANA/Nazanin Tabatabaee/Reuters) In a recent episode of Drag Race, the panelist, and fantastic actor, Jeff Goldblum asked a contestant who was dressed in a red, white, and blue hijab: “Is there something in this religion that is anti-homosexuality
[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves after attending a meeting about the coronavirus in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) told Republican Senators that he would not support President Trump’s proposal for an infrastructure overhaul as part of any further coronavirus economic relief, according to
[ad_1] President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, listens to a reporter’s question at the coronavirus update briefing at the White House, March 26, 2020. (Tia Dufour/White House) President Trump plans to sign an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to compel meat
[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch April 28, 2020 President Donald Trump updates the nation Tuesday on the efforts to support small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. The event is scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated
[ad_1] Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, in collaboration with scientists in academia and government, are working flat-out to develop drugs and vaccines to treat or prevent COVID-19. Although a vaccine is still months away, policymakers and the public should ask now: If and when their efforts succeed, will there be sufficient manufacturing capacity to meet the
[ad_1] Of course I should just accept that the following message is a form of virtue-signaling and doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of life, but I find this kind of thing peculiarly annoying. Today, Colorado and Nevada joined CA, OR, and WA in our Western States Pact. The West Coast is — and
[ad_1] What is wrong with Joe Biden? Old Joe just can’t make it through one sentence without speaking gibberish or making a gaffe. Biden’s latest gaffe however was one for the history books. “I would be much more engaged in the world. We can’t step back,” 77-year-old Biden said. “If in fact for example we
[ad_1] Talking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night, investigative journalist Rich McHugh detailed his reporting on the latest person to corroborate former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. McHugh explained that a neighbor of Reade, whom he deemed “very credible,” recalled Reade telling her about the
[ad_1] John Krasinski hosting the show “Some Good News.” (Screenshot taken via Youtube) As the coronavirus outbreak has swept across the U.S., relatively little about daily life has been predictable, much to our chagrin. One notable exception has been the consistent outpouring of video updates from our nation’s horde of celebrities, who have conscripted their
[ad_1] If the NYPD are New York’s finest, the Sisters of Life are New York’s greatest and joyous, and they are these things in the face of grave evil, too. They were founded after an inspiration the late New York archbishop Cardinal John O’Connor had at Dachau. He founded this community of women religious to
[ad_1] It’s been a decade since the Supreme Court affirmed, in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), that the Second Amendment protects an individual and fundamental right, striking down laws that effectively prohibited the possession of handguns in one’s own home. Since then, the court has routinely declined
[ad_1] Pressure is mounting for 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden to unseal documents related to his time in the Senate as he faces increased scrutiny for allegations of sexual assault leveled against him by Tara Reade. Reade, who worked as a Senate staffer for Biden in 1993, has accused the then-senator of kissing her, touching
[ad_1] An Indian national apprehended by a Border Patrol agent on Thursday was soon discovered to be the first individual in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody to carry the novel coronavirus. A Border Patrol agent apprehended four migrants — three Mexican nationals and one Indian national — attempting to enter the U.S. illegally on
[ad_1] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is asking the Justice Department to turn over records related to a key source for Christopher Steele who undercut allegations made in the salacious Trump dossier. “The Primary Sub-source substantially undercut Steele’s election reporting, calling into question the accuracy and reliability of any of Steele’s reports,” Graham wrote
[ad_1] Christopher Steele shed new light on his work for the Clinton campaign and DNC, revealing in testimony last month that he met with two lawyers for the Democrats as part of his investigation into Donald Trump. Steele met with Perkins Coie partners Michael Sussmann and Marc Elias, he testified. Steele said that Sussmann provided
[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Customs, Border and Immigration News, In The News, Syndicated Posts April 28, 2020 Topics in this post: Drugs methamphetamine LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers intercepted a significant amount of hard narcotics with an estimated street value of more than
[ad_1] A massive 72% of Americans say that they will reach their “breaking point” with stay-at-home orders by mid-June if they continue. The study found that another one fourth of Americans have already reached that point. Pollsters at Kelton Global asked 1,895 U.S. citizens about stay-at-home orders between April 3 and April 6. They found
[ad_1] Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting about the situation in Syria at U.N. Headquarters in New York, February 28, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Ever since the COVID-19 crisis erupted, commentators have predicted that leftists/globalists would try to hitch global warming to the ongoing fight against coronavirus —
[ad_1] The Washington Post on Tuesday buried the latest on the growing controversy swirling around Joe Biden and a sex abuse claim. The paper demoted the story in the print edition to page A-22. The headline looks like a variation of the old “Republicans pounce” take: “Biden critics point to news about assault claim.” Another way of
[ad_1] Airman First Class Sarah Howard, 159th Medical Group, Louisiana Air National Guard, writes triage information on a patient’s car windshield at the triage section of a drive-through community based COVID-19 coronavirus testing site at Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, La., March 20, 2020. (Senior Master Sergeant Dan Farrell/US Air National Guard) The rules
[ad_1] A man in Albany, N.Y., takes part in a protest against lockdown measures amid the coronavirus, April 22, 2020. (Bryan R. Smith / Reuters) As I tell Mark Helprin at the beginning of this Q&A, I started thinking about pandemics a few months ago. Mark has been thinking about them for a long time.
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