The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, headed by new, radical Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice Department claimed the state’s recently enacted election reform law, SB 202, violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like a press
Month: June 2021
The Cruelty is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America by Adam Serwer (One World: 2021), 384. Adam Serwer’s “The Cruelty Is the Point” is the most toxic piece of journalism of the Trump era. After the shocking election of 2016, the liberal establishment showed glimmers of willingness to ask hard questions
After qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics by finishing third in the US Olympic track and field trials on Saturday, hammer thrower Gwen Berry faced away from the American flag during the playing of the National Anthem. Most people would predict tears of excitement after achieving such a milestone, but Berry went in a different direction. Berry
Dry cracked earth is visible along the banks of Phoenix Lake on April 21, 2021 in Ross, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images LONDON — Major companies from across a range of sectors are increasingly concerned about the cost and availability of the world’s ultimate renewable resource: water. The availability and relatively low cost of
Jamie Lynn Spears has publicly come out in support of her sister Britney for the first time since the singer spoke about her controversial conservatorship in court. The Zoey 101 star, 30, said she is “so proud” of her older sister, 39, for “using her voice” by speaking out against the arrangement. In a video
In a shocking allegation during Monday’s show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers that a whistleblower from the National Security Agency had reached out to warn him that the agency had him and his team under surveillance. And understandably, Carlson was non-plus by the apparent revelation, declaring: “Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with
Former Biden advisor Andy Slavitt really wants you to think there are only two choices: Get the COVID-19 vaccine or don’t. And if you don’t, COVID-19 will come for you: Way to tell about a tenth of the story, Andy. The FDA has placed a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis following the second mRNA vaccination.
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called Monday for a pathway to citizenship for “all undocumented people.” Omar tweeted her support to end the undocumented status for all illegal immigrants in the U.S. “We must create a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented people living here,” Omar said. “Immigrants get the job done.” Omar had a
Pope Francis in Camerino, Italy, June 16, 2019 (Remo Casilli/Reuters) As Michael Brendan Dougherty ably noted on the Corner a bit earlier, the New York Times opinion page has published its latest piece attempting to make it appear as if pro-life Catholics don’t understand their own religion. Prominent historian Garry Wills has been studying the Catholic
President Joe Biden got nailed by the Washington Post fact-checker over a very dubious statement he made about the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The president made the claim last week in a speech advocating for more gun control in the U.S. Biden was calling for an increase in background checks to prevent guns
Health officials in Los Angeles strongly urged all residents to wear masks indoors in public spaces, regardless of whether they are vaccinated, over the rise of the coronavirus delta variant. “With increase circulation of the highly transmissible Delta variant, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health strongly recommends everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear
The final episodes of season 4 of HBO’s In Treatment dropped on Sunday and Monday this week and the series laid the contempt for white males on thick. Amazingly, patient Colin (John Benjamin Hickey) decides to come to another therapy session with Brooke (Uzo Aduba) after her speech last week about the problem of white straight cis men
A student attends a virtual class as limited in-person learning resumes at Wilson Primary School, Phoenix, Ariz., August 17, 2020. (Cheney Orr/Reuters) Here’s a question I have had about the decision of some school districts to shut down during the pandemic: What explains these vast differences in how districts responded to the pandemic? For instance,
One day after blasting his former attorney general, William Barr, as a “RINO,” former President Donald Trump expressed regret for supporting Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Trump issued statements on Sunday and Monday in response to an article The Atlantic published, written by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, that said McConnell, of Kentucky, had urged
Crooked Manhattan DA Cy Vance won’t charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations according to the former president’s personal lawyer. It was reported last week that New York prosecutors were considering bringing charges against the Trump Organization amid claims employees illegally ‘received tax-free perks such as
In this article EZJ-GB Johan Lundgren, CEO of British airline EasyJet, is urging the U.K. government to further ease restrictions on European travel due to progress on vaccination rates. “We never anticipated it was going to be, you know, a straightforward recovery. We always knew there was going to be bumps along the way,” Lundgren said
The estranged brother of Robert Durst, the real estate heir on trial for his best friend’s murder, told a court he feared his oldest sibling would kill him. “He’d like to murder me,” Douglas Durst bluntly told jurors in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Durst, 78, is charged with the murder of his best friend
There’s something about ballot-integrity laws that send liberal journalists off a cliff of panic. On Sunday’s Meet the Press, PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor claimed Republicans were causing an “existential crisis” on voting in America, when turnout in 2020 was historically large. She claimed Republicans want to squash all votes that aren’t Republican votes. Where
A couple of days again I noticed something interesting. As I’ve previously mentioned, my son loves Star Wars and is really into building Star Wars Lego sets. As much as I have my issues with both Lego and Disney (which owns Lucasfilm), we still watch the content and build the Lego sets in my house.
Commentators criticized a California professor after he tweeted on Saturday posts that called Joseph Stalin a “successful revolutionary” and “great listener.” Self-identified communist Asatar Bair, an economics professor at Riverside City College, made multiple Twitter posts where he called for more nuance when discussing Stalin’s rule in the former U.S.S.R. Bair said he does not
(Illustration: Florence Lo/Reuters) Last year’s furor over TikTok, the popular social-media app owned by China’s ByteDance, has subsided. Although TikTok faced threats from President Trump, litigation halted the administration’s implementation of executive orders that would ban the app. Then, earlier this month, President Biden repealed those orders and said he would instead develop a broader
“I think if you send your kids to public schools in the United States, you are doing your kids a great disservice,” Crowder said during Thursday’s program. Parents have taken too inactive a role, he noted when it comes to public education, but people are waking up. In this clip, Crowder’s “Parent of the Week”
After months of speculation that the Manhattan district attorney would criminally charge former President Donald Trump, a personal attorney for Trump said Monday that the DA office indicated they would not be charging him. Attorney Ronald Fischetti told Politico that a meeting with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s team pointed to a very narrow
Monday’s White House press briefing quickly became an epic messaging embarrassment for the the Biden administration as, under questioning from the Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy, Press Secretary Jen Psaki argued that Republicans (and not Democrats) have defunded the police and gave the White House’s blessing to America-hating Olympian Gwen Barry. After a short exchange
Mark Janus stands outside of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., February 26, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) This past weekend marked the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME ruling, which guaranteed the First Amendment rights of government employees, allowing them to opt-out of unions by withholding once-compulsory dues and fees —
After the House of Representatives voted 415-14 to make Juneteenth a national holiday, New York Times national political reporter Astead Herndon tweeted, “its kinda amazing: juneteenth is gonna be a federal holiday for reasons teachers won’t be allowed to explain to their students out of fear critical race theory backlash.” its kinda amazing: juneteenth is
The Supreme Court on Monday handed a transgender student a victory when they refused to hear an appeal in a long-running legal battle over a bathroom dispute. Gavin Grimm was born a female but identified as male after freshman year of high school, legally changed her name and began hormone therapy. At first the principal
In this article VOW3-DE CAP-FR SU-FR RNO-FR An electric car from Renault being charged in Berlin, Germany, on April 10, 2020. Annette Riedl | picture alliance | Getty Images Renault announced Monday it had signed “two major partnerships” related to the design and production of electric vehicle batteries, becoming the latest automotive firm attempting to get
The United States has carried out another round of airstrikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon has said. The strikes, which were ordered by President Joe Biden, were in response to drone attacks by the militia against US personnel and facilities in Iraq. The US military said in a statement it targeted
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter began with a poisonous rant on how Sean Hannity goes on poisonous rants. In other words, Stelter argued Hannity is too angry for television, while being every bit as angry. As usual, Stelter insisted Hannity attacking reporters as “stalkers” is authoritarian, in a rant in which he denounced
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