[ad_1] This summer, a prominent statue of Christopher Columbus was destroyed by activist vandals. But this was no spontaneous act of passion. In the general chaos of the summer of 2020, it was a typical moment. At the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, a band of activists—primarily from indigenous-rights groups—had slung ropes around the
Month: November 2020
[ad_1] Organize Right is a regular column with not so much a beat as a meander on the subject of organizing: how the right does it, how the left does it, lessons from its history, and its implications for today. The previous installment of this column offered an explanation for why Lefties are good at
[ad_1] A missing Florida man was rescued Sunday after being found 86 miles from shore, clinging for dear life to his capsized boat in an outcome one U.S. Coast Guard captain called “truly incredible.” What are the details? USA Today reported that Stuart Bee, 62, took off Friday afternoon from Port Canaveral aboard his 32-foot
[ad_1] Few could believe it when LA County switched the latest COVID dining edict from outside-only to a complete shut down right before Thanksgiving. All of a sudden restaurants that invested in tents, patio infrastructure, and outdoor heaters were stuck with equipment they couldn’t use for customers they were forbidden to serve. One Redondo Beach
[ad_1] Dr. Scott Atlas resigned as the special adviser to President Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic and liberal critics pounced on the news to criticize him and the president. Atlas was seen as a controversial voice on the pandemic because he went against the grain and questioned the validity of many social distancing guidelines,
[ad_1] On the same day that Arizona certified former Vice President Joe Biden as the winner of the state’s 11 electoral votes, state lawmakers held a fact-finding meeting Monday on allegations of voter fraud that might have tilted the closely contested state. Biden appears to have won the traditionally Republican-leaning state by just over 10,000
[ad_1] West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin took a swipe at fellow Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, appearing to question the New York representative’s effectiveness in Congress and accusing her of being “more active on Twitter than anything else.” What are the details? During a recent interview with the New York Times, Manchin was asked about the far-left
[ad_1] Mike Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot and Republican who flipped a Democratic House district in a special election earlier this year, will keep his seat in the House for a full term: New: Christy Smith (D) just conceded to Rep. Mike Garcia (R) in #CA25. The House count now stands at 222D-211R with
[ad_1] In an appearance on Face the Nation on Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx gave Americans who celebrated Thanksgiving with people outside their household some advice: “We know people may have made mistakes over the Thanksgiving time period,” Birx said in an interview with Face the Nation. “If you’re young and you gathered, you need to
[ad_1] Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took on liberal actress Alyssa Milano after she tried to blame him and his fellow Republicans for the lack of a deal on a new coronavirus aid package. The Twitter feud began after Cruz posted a comment about the changing demographics of the Democratic Party based on statistics
[ad_1] (Getty Images) America’s got a problem that’s systemic in nature. This problem has less to do with individual intentions than the structure within which our intentions are formed. That structure explains a great deal about observed disparities in wealth, and other advantages, between various racial and ethnic groups. It helps explain why we’re torn
[ad_1] While the broadcast networks spent Monday evening echoing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s complaints against fed up Americans spending Thanksgiving with their families, and CBS blasted Florida for keeping schools open, none of them shared his Sunday comments arguing that kids should remain in school and his admission that kids don’t spread the virus as much
[ad_1] New York State Capitol in Albany (Pixabay) When it rains it pours. . . . New York — and particularly New York City — has been left in terrible shape by the effects of the pandemic and, lest we forget, the ham-fisted governmental response to it. But now, well, this. Writing in City Journal,
[ad_1] 1. At least 110 dead in Nigeria after suspected Boko Haram attack 2. ProPublica: “We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic The New York State Department of Health advises adult care facilities to inform residents about confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases. But inhabitants
[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event in support of candidate for congress Claudia Tenney in Utica, N.Y., August 13, 2018. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Nearly a month after Election Day, the constituents of New York’s 22nd congressional district still don’t know who will be representing them in the House of Representatives for the next
[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) speaks by video feed during the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention, August 18, 2020. (2020 Democratic National Convention/Pool via Reuters) When Amazon scrapped plans to build its “HQ2” facility in New York, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez waxed poetic on Twitter: Anything is possible: today was the day a group of
[ad_1] Singer Katy Perry finds herself under attack from the left for being a good daughter. Her father and brother have started a line of t-shirts and Katy made the mistake of promoting one on her social media accounts. The response was swift and surly. Katy is a liberal activist and her father is a
[ad_1] Newt Gingrich tweeted Friday: “The more data comes out on vote anomalies that clearly are not legitimate the more it looks like 2020 may be the biggest Presidential theft since Adams and Clay robbed Andrew Jackson in 1824. State legislatures should demand recounts.” He was right, except for one detail: the stolen election of
[ad_1] Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page sued the Justice Department, the FBI, and multiple officials involved in Crossfire Hurricane on Friday for $75 million, saying that he was the victim of “unlawful spying” as part of the government’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Page asserts in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,
[ad_1] Two weeks ago Gov. Newsom abruptly announced that nearly everyone in the state of California was living in a “purple tier” county, meaning the virus was spreading quickly and additional restrictions would resume on “non-essential” businesses. Then a few days later the Governor put in place a 10 pm curfew for all of the
[ad_1] Los Angeles County’s Friday coronavirus order exempts protests and religious services as cases rise in the densely populated area. The temporary order, which is set to last three weeks, bars all public and private gatherings with individuals outside of one’s own household, but allows the “constitutionally protected rights” to protest and attend religious services, according
[ad_1] President Trump returns from Camp David to the White House in Washington, D.C., November 29, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) It was predictable, and widely predicted, that Donald Trump would respond to an election loss, particularly one by as narrow a margin as this, with claims of fraud, efforts to delegitimize the outcome, and increasingly implausible
[ad_1] Actually, the headline should read “Dems should be shocked, shocked,” as all evidence points to the contrary. How did Democrats blow so many golden opportunities in the 2020 election? The analysis from the New York Times’ Trip Gabriel points out their problem. Democrats mistook Trump exhaustion with an embrace of progressivism. Bad mistake, especially in the
[ad_1] If data analysis is insensitive or appears to “trivialize” a pandemic, does it make the research false? The arguments of the lockdown and mask totalitarians are so fickle that they must resort to unprecedented censorship in order to win the day. Their views cannot coexist with any trace of dissent on the internet, which
[ad_1] He said this to Sidney Powell, who sounded appropriately hesitant about whether the president can pardon himself. Think about that. Hannity’s guest was the lawyer who just accused Hugo Chavez of having played an indirect role in rigging America’s election and he floated a legal scenario so dubious that even she was like, “Yeah,
[ad_1] Kayleigh McEnany isn’t impressed with the news that Joe Biden has chosen an all-female communications team. When the news spread Sunday that Biden’s communication department will be led by an all-women team, the press was giddy with delight. Once again Team Biden has put forward a historic first and, let’s face it, identity politics
[ad_1] Conservative commentator Candace Owens fought back against Facebook’s left-wing fact-checker PolitiFact and won. The fact-checker retracted a “false” rating it gave to a video posted by Owens on Nov. 12, and issued a correction admitting fault. “Weeks ago, @Facebook censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect,” Owens
[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters following an online meeting with members of the National Governors Association (NGA) executive committee in Wilmington, Del., November 19, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) I mentioned this at the tail end of the Morning Jolt, but there’s still meat on the bone: Just what was the Biden team thinking, nominating
[ad_1] Via the IJR, this is an exceedingly polite admonition coming from a guy who’s been dubbed “an enemy of the people” by Trump and whose wife has received graphic sexual threats from certain thuggish Trump fans who really don’t like the outcome of Georgia’s election. Too polite, frankly. Let me gently suggest to Brad
[ad_1] An election official works in the ballot room organizing unused ballots returned from voting precincts after Election Day at the Kenosha Municipal Building in Kenosha, Wisc., November 4, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) The Trump campaign spent $3 million on a recount in Wisconsin’s two most populous (and Democratic) counties: Milwaukee and Dane (home to the
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