Month: January 2021

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said that a controversial leaked recording of a phone call between the president and a Georgia official was cause for a second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Ocasio-Cortez made the comments to reporters Sunday as the first day of the new session of Congress began. “I absolutely think it’s an impeachable
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Barstool Sports founder and President Dave Portnoy has shared some tear-jerking videos online showing business owners learning that they have been accepted to receive a lifeline from his Barstool Fund to save small businesses. But Portnoy’s latest video is, as he called it, “waterworks city.” What are the details? In mid-December, Portnoy launched the Barstool
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Some of you might remember when CNN’s PrimeTime host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo went toe-to-toe last year with Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling regarding the baseless accusations of voter suppression against the black community. In fact, Sterling made Fredo look like such a fool, that the schooling made it into NewsBusters’ top Fredo moments of 2020. Well, Cuomo
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The U.S. Covid vaccination effort is far behind original estimates. More than 15.4 million doses have been delivered to states, but only 4.5 million Americans have received their first shot according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Providence Hospital System, however, has defied the country’s slow rollout trend and has given the first
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Being clear-eyed about what the Trump presidency meant for life TOPSHOT – Pro-life demonstrators listen to US President Donald Trump as he speaks at the 47th annual “March for Life” in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2020. – Trump is the first US president to address in person the country’s biggest annual gathering of anti-abortion
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CNN’s activist-reporter Rosa Flores was taken down quite a few notches by Governor Ron DeSantis during a hostile exchange at a coronavirus press briefing. DeSantis treated Flores exactly the way she deserved to be treated. Anyone who humiliates and embarrasses reporters like this has my vote. DeSantis rocks pic.twitter.com/56EUuvdPt0 — Eduardo Neret (@eduneret) January 5,
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After a 35-year-old Illinois man located and chased down two 17-year-old males who allegedly stole his car days before, the teens ended up shot after a physical altercation early Sunday — one of them fatally, investigators told the Chicago Tribune. What are the details? The 35-year-old Round Lake Beach man reported his 2012 Chevrolet sedan
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Last June, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser demanded that National Guard forces be removed from the capital because the protests over George Floyd were “peaceful.” But now, Mayor Bowser is requesting National Guard forces during the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory because “people who are coming here to look for confrontations.”  On Sunday, she
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President Donald Trump on Monday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, citing the congressman’s work uncovering FISA abuses by the FBI targeting Trump’s 2016 campaign. What are the details? A statement from the White House announcing the award to Nunes, 47, read: In 2017, Congressman Nunes launched an investigation
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Cosmopolitan magazine faced fierce online backlash and mockery for its latest cover that dabbled in body positivity during a global pandemic where obesity has been identified as a high-risk precondition. The fashion and entertainment magazine geared toward women highlighted an article touting “11 women on why wellness doesn’t have to be one-size-fits-all,” on its cover
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‘Got Freedom?’, a 501(c)4 nonprofit election integrity watchdog group, conducted an exclusive national briefing today at the request of state legislators from Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to review the extensive evidence of irregularities and lawlessness in the 2020 presidential election. A similar briefing is being scheduled in Washington, D.C. at the request of Members of
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Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler announced Monday that she would be among several congressional Republicans objecting to the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory when it is brought up in a joint session on Wednesday. What are the details? Loeffler issued a statement explaining her decision: The American people deserve a platform in Congress,
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris recalled a bizarre story from her childhood that many thought was strikingly similar to one told by the iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. In the profile from Elle magazine, Harris says that as a child she tumbled out of her stroller while her parents were enraptured
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The leader of Dominion Voting Systems, an election hardware company, said he plans to sue attorney Sidney Powell for her role in promoting “falsities” related to the 2020 presidential race. John Poulos, founder and CEO of the Colorado-based company, said his legal team is preparing a lawsuit against Powell, considering possible litigation against Fox News,
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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the president’s call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, the Hawley and Cruz electoral-vote objection, and Georgia’s impending special elections. Listen below, or subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Members of
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In yet another example of journalists ignoring gaffes by Democrats, the networks have, so far, skipped Congressman Emanuel Cleaver’s prayer opening for the 117th Congress. Cleaver closed his prayer by saying “amen and awoman.” What this woke attempt at gender neutrality means is a mystery. The Democrat, an ordained United Methodist pastor, expanded beyond Christianity and referenced the
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The election is over, and Donald Trump’s presidency is set to expire on January 20, but the hyperbole surrounding the outcome continues. Respectable opinion has switched rather abruptly from alarm about the integrity of the election to thundering outrage at the president for disputing its integrity. These reckless, unfounded accusations, we are told, have undermined,
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They were called “refuseniks”—Jews in the Soviet Union who wanted to emigrate. They were not just “refused” the right to leave. They were spied on, harassed, and thrown into prison. For Natan Sharansky, the unimaginable abuse was a liberation of conscience. They could take away everything but his passion for freedom. The resilience he showed
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Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) will object to the certification of the 2020 election results on Wednesday during the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College. Loeffler joins a dozen other Republican Senators and over 140 House Republicans who will object to the fraudulent Biden electors. “We must restore trust, confidence and integrity in
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill, June 17, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via Reuters) Congressional Republicans are engaging in sheer political theater to flaunt their loyalty to Trump, and they know it. As I wrote back in late November, no matter how badly
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