Month: October 2020

[ad_1] Politics in 2020 is all about hating the other side, yet that isn’t compatible with how most people live, among the near and the familiar. “Trump-Pence” signs and banners are seen on a street in Olyphant, just outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, on August 11, 2020. (Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images) Northampton County in
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[ad_1] A documentary from former football star Benjamin Watson discusses an inconvenient truth: the abortion industry targets black people. Benjamin Watson has been a regular speaker at prominent events like the March for Life for years, but Divided Hearts of America is the soft-spoken NFL star’s most significant foray into pro-life advocacy to date. More
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[ad_1] Golf icon Jack Nicklaus endorsed President Donald Trump for next week’s presidential election and the president offered a grateful response from his Twitter account. Nicklaus tweeted his endorsement in a statement on Wednesday. “Through the years, I have been blessed to personally know several Presidents on both sides of the aisle. All were good
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[ad_1] Girl Scouts of the USA organization has issued an apology after receiving backlash for publicly congratulating Justice Amy Coney Barrett for becoming the fifth woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. What are the details? On Wednesday, the group tweeted portraits of all the women who have been chosen to sit
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[ad_1] Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. As I noted earlier this evening, the Supreme Court (conservative majority and all) is falling down on the job of defending the express constitutional power of state legislatures to write election laws for presidential and congressional elections. That power is limited, of course, by various federal constitutional and
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[ad_1] After the New York Times published Anonymous’s op-ed, CNN’s Chris Cillizza went to bat for the newspaper in a piece titled: “Here’s one big clue to the identity of the anonymous op-ed writer.” (Hat-tip, Eddie Zipper) Here’s the relevant portion: In short: If some midlevel bureaucrat in the Trump administration comes to the Times
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[ad_1] CNN contributor and former administration bureaucrat Miles Taylor revealed Wednesday that he was the so-called “senior administration official” who wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in 2018 with many unsubstantiated accusations against President Trump. CNN’s Chris Cuomo managed to snag Taylor’s first interview since coming out and that too was filled with
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[ad_1] The district attorney in Philadelphia issued a fiery statement warning President Donald Trump about supporting uncertified poll watchers for the election. Larry Krasner issued the statement on Wednesday as a third night of violent protests were expected to erupt in the historic city. “The Trump Administration’s efforts to suppress votes amid a global pandemic
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[ad_1] The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google defended themselves Wednesday on Capitol Hill from charges of political bias in how they share news and other information. They testified before a Senate committee roughly a week after Twitter and Facebook suppressed a New York Post expose on the lucrative foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden,
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[ad_1] 1. Reuters: Egypt says freedom of expression “stops” when Muslims offended 2. Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’ Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said. 3. Montse Alvarado: The Next Four Years: Religious freedom needed for
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[ad_1] Last week, four members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, urging her to investigate Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law after multiple professors — including the school’s interim dean — confessed to being “racist.” One of them confessed to being a “gatekeeper of white supremacy.” While
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[ad_1] The Senate Republican Conference on Wednesday released the first of a five-part documentary series, which it intends to use to take back the messaging around the government’s coronavirus response effort. The documentary, entitled “The Invisible Enemy,” gives viewers an inside look at how Senate Republicans responded to the coronavirus outbreak. Produced by the Senate
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[ad_1] The New York Times faced a wave of criticism Wednesday for hyping former “Anonymous” author Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security staffer, as a “senior” Trump administration official.  Taylor, who revealed his identity Wednesday, wasn’t even an agency chief of staff at the time he wrote the op-ed.  “I also didn’t realize the definition
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[ad_1] “It is regrettable that someone should endanger the health of other Islanders after being informed of the need to self-isolate,” Caroline Maffia, the strategic lead for contact tracing, monitoring and enforcement, said, according to Metro. Ingram was supposed to be quarantining after arriving from Salford to Jersey, Metro reported. “This fine demonstrates that we will
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[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to expedite a decision on whether the state of Pennsylvania can extend the deadline to receive mail-in ballots. The Court’s decision effectively allows Pennsylvania to move forward with its original plan to receive mail-in ballots for the presidential election up until November 6, three days
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