Rev Al Sharpton has called for the release of footage showing what led to the death of Andrew Brown Jr, a black man shot dead by police in North Carolina. Mr Brown was killed by sheriff’s deputies during a morning raid on his home on 21 April. Pasquotank County officers had been trying to serve
Month: May 2021
The Harry Potter Series, perhaps the most highly-favored fantasy novels among young readers, is being cancelled just like its author at a New Zealand book festival. Woke organizers of the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival taking place on May 6-9 in New Zealand, removed a popular Harry Potter segment from the event because of author J.K.
The Chronicle of Higher Education published an astonishing list of 195 colleges and universities, both public and private, that will require all students to receive the COVID-19 vaccination to attend classes on campus in the fall. It would be astonishing if no students challenged this requirement based on the status of the vaccine alone. According
Nailah Winkfield, mother of Jahi McMath, speaks to the media outside Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, Calif., December 30, 2013. (Norbert von der Groeben/Reuters) Readers may recall the sad case of Jahi McMath out of Oakland, Calif. In 2013, Jahi experienced a severe bleeding event after throat surgery and a subsequent cardiac arrest.
Although he declined to mention any specific public figure by name, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone delivered a scathing rebuke to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), President Joe Biden, and other prominent pro-choice Catholics in a recent missive about the evils of abortion. What are the details? In the pastoral letter issued Saturday and
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says President Joe Biden can expect “zero” Senate Republicans to sign on to the administration’s $4 trillion behemoth of an infrastructure package, saying it costs too much and has “a whole lot of other stuff” in it beyond its purported purpose. What are the details? Speaking during a news
On Monday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin invited on fellow cable host and leftist race-baiter Al Sharpton to attack Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott for daring to say that “America is not a racist country” during a response to President Biden’s address to Congress. “Rev, let me ask you about something that’s made some
Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN. The Twitter account called CNN Politics promoted Collinson’s latest online essay with the words “President [Joe] Biden to showcase his moderate radicalism in his big congressional address.” “Moderate radicalism”? Doesn’t that make about as much sense as “quiet loudness”? Collinson
Greg Gianforte delivers his victory speech during a special congressional election in Bozeman, Montana, on May 25, 2017. (Colter Peterson/Reuters) Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, the first Republican to hold the seat in 16 years, does not want to miss a rare opportunity to reform his state’s judicial process. In Montana, judges are chosen by voters
Joe Biden, with his nurse Jill in tow, visited an elementary school in Yorktown, Virginia on Monday. Joe and Jill will also visit a community college in Virginia as part of the “Getting America Back on Track” tour. Schools and businesses are reopening after Democrats closed down their states and Biden is taking credit for
Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing then travel to Virginia where he will visit an elementary school and a community college. President Biden’s Itinerary for 5/3/21: All Times EDT 8:00 AM Receive daily briefing – Oval Office 9:00 AM Depart White House en route to Newport News, Va – Marine One/Air Force
A healthcare vaccinates a woman with the Covid-19 vaccine on April 30, 2021,as the Pasadena Public Library hosts a mobile vaccine clinic set up by the Harris County Public Health, in Pasadena, Texas. Cecile Clocheret | AFP | Getty Images About 2 in 5 American adults are now fully vaccinated for Covid-19, Centers for Disease
The Duke of Sussex has called for vaccines to be “distributed to everyone everywhere” as he spoke at a star-studded charity concert in Los Angeles. Prince Harry appeared along with a host of famous names from the worlds of music, film and politics at Global Citizen’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World –
Do you have no desire for homosexual sex, but really think your same sex best friend is amazing? Do you wish you could be called anything but ”straight”? Gay Inc. is here to save the day! Freeform’s Everything’s Gonna Be Okay introduced a Gay Inc. term for what used to be called “Best Friends Forever.” In the episode, “California
Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2021. (Demetrius Freeman/Reuters) Leading members of the Civics Alliance, convened by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to fight action civics and related dangers, have issued an open letter appealing to Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) and Congressman Tom Cole
Republican Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) addressed Sunday the liberal backlash surrounding his declaration that America is “not a racist country,” which resulted in Scott being targeted with racist condemnation. What is the background? After Scott absolved America of being inherently racist, liberals called Scott “Uncle Tim,” MSNBC host Tiffany Cross suggested that Scott is a
A Louisville restaurant patron put a bit of a scare into Black Lives Matter marchers Saturday night when video caught him pointing a handgun at the protesters in a wild scene amid tables on the sidewalk in front of La Chasse, the Courier-Journal reported. What are the details? The paper said the protesters’ demonstration coincided
Americans turned against Big Tech, according to a shocking Gallup poll. The shift from 2019 to 2021 was drastic with Republicans and independents rejecting “large technology companies.” More Americans viewed Big Tech negatively by a wide margin. Gallup reported: “A 45% plurality of U.S. adults have a very or somewhat negative view of these firms,
Rod Dreher asks “What are they preparing us for by teaching non-white people to fear and loathe whites?” It’s a good question, and the answer is something to fear. Once only on social media, now commonplace on the legacy outlets, we encounter near-constant pleas to kill white people, or cancel them, or push them aside.
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Capitol Hill, September 30, 2020. (Bonnie Cash/Pool via Reuters) In the eyes of Scott’s Democratic critics, a black Republican is an outrageous anomaly — and fair game for racist abuse. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne of the less famous figures of the civil-rights movement was Lincoln Ragsdale, a veteran Tuskegee
California will release at least 76,000 inmates including 63,000 violent criminals and repeat felons back onto the streets in order to create “safer prisons.” It also includes 20,000 inmates who are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. “The goal is to increase incentives for the incarcerated population to practice good behavior and follow
The Left is hard at work promoting the climate change humbug. This article crushes the lies and reveals the truth behind the fib of a 97% consensus among scientists. Much of what follows comes from Marc Morano’s amazing research on the subject. His research is detailed in a book that should be required reading for
A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a graffiti, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on a street in Mumbai, India, March 30, 2021. Francis Mascarenhas | Reuters India’s second wave of Covid-19 infections shows no signs of slowing down as the country’s overwhelmed health-care system faces supply shortages for hospital
On her Friday morning show, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle put on display the kind of hostile treatment conservative guests can expect to receive as she confronted Governor Jim Justice (R-WV) over his decision to sign a bill to protects girls’ sports in schools. A couple of days later, MSNBC weekend host Ali Velshi even replayed the
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(fuzznails/Getty Images) The Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban menthol cigarettes, which represent over 40 percent of all cigarettes sold. The Biden White House is justifying the ban by saying menthols disproportionately target and hurt African Americans. Indeed, some 80 percent of blacks and 35 percent of Hispanics who smoke prefer menthols. But
Newly obtained emails show the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teacher’s union in the United States, successfully lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from recommending earlier this year that schools could fully reopen in a safe manner. The damning emails were provided to the New York Post by the conservative watchdog group
A “Harry Potter” event at a New Zealand book festival was canceled over comments regarding gender and transgender made by J.K. Rowling. Organizers of the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival decided to cancel a “Harry Potter” interactive quiz, which “had been extremely popular at previous events,” according to Stuff. Organizers felt a need to not hold
Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler drew a lot of fire for digging deeply into the family history of Sen. Tim Scott to suggest his life story was exaggerated. On Sunday night’s All Things Considered, NPR weekend host Michel Martin devoted more than eight minutes of air time to letting Kessler defend himself, as liberal