A man has walked free from prison after 32 years after his murder conviction was overturned due to new evidence. Gilbert Poole Jr, 56, was jailed for the murder of Robert Mejia in 1988 in Detroit, Michigan. He had always challenged the ruling – despite his girlfriend at the time saying he confessed carrying out
Month: May 2021
On Tuesday’s New Day show on CNN, co-host Brianna Keilar devoted a segment to trying to undermine a soon-to-be law in Texas that will allow legal gun owners to carry concealed handguns without a permit. The show allowed Democratic state legislator Joe Moody a forum to argue against the law and spread misinformation about current gun
“All I can say is, I don’t know what they have to hide,” Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) told investigative reporter Sara Carter. Babin was referring to the physical blocking of 12 Republican lawmakers from inspecting the El Paso border intelligence center. “For some reason, we were not allowed in. I can only imagine what is
On May 11, the Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a life sentence without parole for 38-year-old Allen Russell, sustaining his 2019 guilty conviction for possessing marijuana in an amount over 30 grams (1.05 ounces). “Upon review of the case before us, and in accordance with precedent, we find that Russell’s sentencing as a habitual offender
The dynamic that so many feared with the U.S. pullout appears to be taking hold: The Taliban have negotiated Afghan troop surrenders in the past, but never at the scale and pace of the base collapses this month in the four provinces extending east, north and west of Kabul. The tactic has removed hundreds of
Life plus 10 years now means that a brutal child murderer and rapist gets to be released at age 49. But for the victims, there are no parole boards, clemencies, “compassionate releases,” or Kim Kardashians to publicize their case and bring justice for their lost souls. Fifteen-year-old Sarah Jayne Jamison of Lynchburg, Virginia, will remain
It’s no secret that teachers unions are strident opponents of charter schools — despite the fact that charter schools are simply independently operated public schools. Charters are a form of school choice that the unions fear will one day lead to education vouchers, which will allow students to receive government dollars to escape the many
Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell slammed the “fraudulent” Facebook fact-checker program for spreading communist Chinese propaganda after Facebook announced it was backtracking on its policy of censoring content that questioned the origins of COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, Facebook and its fact-checkers censored claims that COVID-19 was manufactured in a laboratory in Wuhan,
Janice Dean began speaking out against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo when she saw that media outlets weren’t holding the Democratic governor accountable for what was happening in New York during the COVID-10 pandemic. Dean, senior meteorologist at Fox News Channel, lost both her mother-in-law and father-in-law to the disease in New York nursing homes.
Anti-lockdown protesters gather outside the Tinhorn Flats Saloon in Burbank, Calif. (Baret Lepejian) On a Monday night in early December, Baret Lepejian called his son Lucas: He wanted to know what he thought about California governor Gavin Newsom’s newest order re-shuttering the state’s beleaguered bars and restaurants as coronavirus cases climbed across the country. Lucas
Joe Biden’s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is a gun control activist who has pushed conspiracy theories about the Waco Siege. During a Senate hearing this week, he admitted that he wants to ban certain weapons. This man has no business heading the ATF. Townhall reports: TRENDING: Flight Attendant Beaten
Electric vehicle manufacturing currently faces an “embedded carbon” challenge, says Jefferies’ Simon Powell. “To gain the environmental dividend that governments are looking for, users are going to have to keep them longer, drive them further than they may have done with a conventional internal combustion energy vehicle,” Powell, head of global thematic research at the
A mechanic at a San Jose, California rail yard has shot dead eight co-workers before taking his own life as police officers arrived on the scene. The gunman, named by officials as 57-year-old Sam Cassidy, opened fire at around 6.30am local time at the light rail facility for the Valley Transportation Authority, which provides bus,
I’m sure by most standards I don’t get hate mail often, but I get my fair share. There’s always someone desperate to be triggered by something I’ve written about. But, perhaps more than any other issue, the transgender issue—the belief that one can change gender by simply identifying as the opposite sex as their biology—is
In a very different time — yet in similar economic straits — then-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of the “forgotten man,” the American left behind by seismic trends and sweeping changes beyond his control. “These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units
[embedded content] Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley has just published Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, the definitive account of the life of Hoover senior fellow Thomas Sowell. In this wide-ranging interview, Peter Robinson and Riley discuss the events and people that helped Sowell become one of the most important American voices on cultural,
Eric Carle, author and artist of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and more than 70 other children’s books, passed away this week at the age of 91. What are the details? NPR reported that Carle’s family said in a statement that the author “passed away peacefully surrounded by family members on May 23, 2021 at his
Facebook has decided that its users may now suggest that COVID-19 was man-made without getting their posts banned, in a reversal from previous policy as the theory that the virus was cooked up in a Wuhan lab gains traction. What are the details? The social media giant told Politico Wednesday that it would no longer
A Virginia school district has become an epicenter of the debates occurring over critical race theory and other, similar curriculums coming to K-12 classrooms around the country. In 2020, the Loudoun County Public Schools adopted a plan to double down on bringing so-called “culturally responsive” teaching to the classroom. It’s notable that the administration of
Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., July 8, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) EXCLUSIVE: The former secretary of state fires back amid reports that the Biden State Department cut short a coronavirus-origin investigation he once led. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F ormer secretary of state Mike Pompeo blasted
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Wednesday, questioned Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on whether U.S. grant money may have funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. In the same hearing, Fauci’s boss, Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health, reveals a bombshell effort to vaccinate people against meth
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said Wednesday that shareholders need to be patient with the company’s stock because the cloud transition is not happening overnight. “Our business is really going to conduct itself really over considerable, long periods of time,” Slootman said in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on “Mad Money.” “That’s sort of the
US President Joe Biden has asked intelligence officers to “redouble” their efforts to find out the true origin of the COVID-19 outbreak. An international team of World Health Organisation scientists, working with experts in China, had been researching how the pandemic began, and as part of its work, visited the province of Wuhan where the
Project Veritas may have just exposed Facebook — again. This time, Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe alleged that Facebook documents detailed an algorithm test that targeted users concerned about COVID-19 vaccinations. Project Veritas purportedly received documents detailing an algorithm beta test for “Vaccine Hesitancy Comment Demotion,” leaked by two Facebook insiders. “Even if the facts
Bear Down, Arizona It took some time (I’m terrible at booking guests — I need an assistant) but I’m excited to finally welcome my Townhall colleague and fellow University of Arizona Wildcat Katie Pavlich to the Kabana podcast. Katie is a rarity: she’s been working in the Swamp for a long time but hasn’t let
Since the end of World War II, many political candidates from across the world, but particularly here in the US, attempt to solidify positions or attack their opponents by using references of Jewish persecution under Nazi Germany and the atrocities brought on by the racial genocide and under the Holocaust. Democrats and Republicans alike are
The Burbo Bank offshore wind farm near New Brighton, England, October 6, 2020. (Phil Noble/Reuters) In a last desperate, if unnecessary, effort to ensure that she would be remembered as one of Britain’s worst prime ministers, Theresa May ensured that the U.K. would be obliged by law to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, a
Nine people including the suspected gunman are dead after a transit worker opened fire on colleagues at a rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday. Authorities say the lone suspect, Samuel Cassidy, took his own life at the scene. What are the details? NBC News reported that calls of shots fired began around 6:30
A New York Times writer covering the COVID-19 pandemic deleted a tweet claiming that that the “lab leak theory” is racist after receiving online blowback. Apoorva Mandavilli, the Times science and global health reporter, issued the missive on Wednesday. “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist
MSNBC’s The ReidOut closed on an awkward note Tuesday night as Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) dared to go against the grain and remind host Joy Reid and viewers that conservatives, Republicans, and police officers are human beings too, who were capable of sincerity and shouldn’t be “paint[ed]….with a broad brush.” Reid had spent most of
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