Confirmed COVID-19 cases have reportedly fallen to levels not seen since March 2020, when the pandemic first began picking up steam in the United States. What are the details? According to a report Thursday from NBC News, cases are at an all-time low year over year, and health experts say that the cases are expected
Month: June 2021
The liberal media is in love with a Dallas high school student who used her valedictorian speech to wail about a Texas law restricting abortions. Of course, the hosts of The View were enamored as well with the “brave” teen “making a stand” holding up “democracy” and “speaking truth to power” ie: the Republican party.
Rep. Chip Roy recently introduced a bill to withhold federal funds from any schools that teach critical race theory. The Texas Republican lawmaker joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about the bill, how critical race theory is affecting what children learn in schools, what parents can do to make sure their kids aren’t being taught
An oil tank truck fills the pumps at a Shell petrol station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 31, 2019. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: Shell’s legal defeat, Biden and Arctic oil, Putin and Arctic oil, Putin and coal, and the ransomware negotiator.
Four antifa and BLM terrorists have been arrested and are now facing a variety of federal charges in Portland (duh, where else) stemming from the ongoing *PEACEFUL* protests. Charges include multiple incidents involving explosive devices, among other things. The Oregonian reports: A 19-year-old who was arrested and accused of dismantling a card reader and intercom
Tesla China-made Model 3 vehicles are seen during a delivery event at its factory in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — Tesla is recalling more than 700 units of its Model 3 electric car that were imported into China, the central government’s market regulator said Thursday. The announcement follows recalls
Prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd, to 30 years in prison. In court documents filed on Wednesday, prosecutors cite the trial judge’s ruling last month that there were four aggravating factorsin Floyd‘s murder. But a defence lawyer wants Chauvin to be sentenced
On Wednesday night, NewsNation fill-in host and former Fox News correspondent Leland Vittert did what few national news outlets have done in subjecting the NIH’s Dr. Tony Fauci to a challenging interview. In this case, he focused on this week’s dump of thousands of Fauci e-mails from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic that
It’s been a month since Donald Trump launched his blog, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” and the blog is already no longer. The blog—if you can even call it that—has been removed from the site completely. The blog was reportedly part of a strategy to get around his permanent bans from social media.
A Florida couple was sentenced to prison today for their participation in a scheme to file four fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $1.1 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Archibishop Chaput attends a news conference at the Vatican in 2014. (Tony Gentile/Reuters) Earlier today I talked to Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput. And goodness. I could have talked with him for three more hours, easily. He’s wise. Delightful. Clear. Encouraging. And challenging in the best of ways. A surprise to me: He
Liberal news outlet Vox News got lambasted on social media over a headline proclaiming that they were mystified about the rise of anti-Semitic attacks during the latest war between Israel and Hamas. The tweet of the Vox article from Zach Beauchamp read, “Violent anti-Semitism spiked in America during the Israel-Hamas war. And we don’t know
Conservative venture capitalists are investing in Rumble, a new video platform designed to be an alternative to YouTube. The website has recently reached an agreement with venture capitalists Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance to invest in the service and grow its reach and expand into live-streaming. Many on the right have complained that YouTube used
Because Twitter apparently doesn’t feel as if we already have enough censorship, they have decided they need to add warning labels to our tweets. Not just one kind of warning label but three different types of warning labels. On May 31 9TO5Mac revealed the Brave New World of Twitter censorship via warning labels that is almost
The conventional wisdom of American politics these days is that the Republican Party is in trouble while the Democrats are ascendant. The GOP, after all, is saddled with the despised Donald Trump, the ugliness of January 6, and a deep internal cleavage reflected in the House Republicans’ nasty expulsion of Rep. Liz Cheney from the
This week, a clip of America’s most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” has undoubtedly made a fortune by indicting those who disagree with him as complicit in American racism—and by providing partial absolution to those who repeat his cultish
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) again defended the filibuster during a joint press conference with Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) on Wednesday. “Some people are saying that you have a choice between the filibuster and democracy,” a reporter said during the press conference.
The torrent of revelations coming to light from the Fauci emails obtained via a Washington Post FOIA request is excavating the reputational grave of the diminutive Doctor. The emails show a selfish, pompous ass more worried about eats from a NY Deli than ensuring that an op-ed on Covid-19 (authored by his nemesis, Peter Navarro)
In this article TSLA BEVER-NL Elon Musk brought electric vehicles into the mainstream with Tesla. Now the EV company is grappling with the consequences of its own innovation, former Ford Motor CEO Mark Fields told CNBC on Wednesday. “One of the many things he did is he pushed the industry toward taking EV seriously,” Fields
Guns, beer and childcare are among incentives being offered to Americans to encourage coronavirus vaccinations. A total of 296,404,240 doses have been administered in the US, with 135,867,425 people – or 41.39% of the population – fully vaccinated against COVID-19. A mixture of public and private sector motivations are being offered, as President Joe Biden
In the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we explore CNN host Chris Cuomo touting how there was a “throughline” from the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 to red-state voter-integrity bills in 2021. How does asking for an ID or moving early voting hours compare to mass murder? The only conclusion is Chris Cuomo isn’t smart. Several networks strongly
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LAREDO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers seized hard narcotics in two separate, unrelated incidents that totaled over $3.5 million in street value. “In an effort to secure our nation’s borders, as these narcotics seizures clearly illustrate, CBP has implemented enforcement strategies that have furthered the disruption of dangerous
U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. (tupungato/Getty Images) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, arguably the most powerful lobby in Washington, made a big splash this week in a push for vastly increased immigration. This may seem improbable when, in April, there were about 64 million Americans of working age who were either formally
The crisis at the border continues to worsen, with the U.S. Border Patrol recently releasing some shocking statistics that illuminate just how bad the situation has become. But Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is doing everything he can to prevent any additional unlawful crossings into the Lone Star State. Abbott joined Glenn Beck on the
Katie Hill, the California Democrat who resigned from Congress over leaked nonconsensual nude photos, was ordered to pay over $200,000 in legal fees to the Daily Mail and two conservative journalists she sued. Hill has claimed that she was the victim of a right wing conspiracy to oust her from Congress. She resigned in 2019
Because MSNBC isn’t interested in debate or alternative points of view, the hosts of Morning Joe on Wednesday turned to Alphonso David, the president of Human Rights Campaign to bash Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a bill to protect women’s sports. According to David, DeSantis is only doing this for “political gain.” “All of
As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative. Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American
A child holds a sign during a protest to the closing of Public School 130 following the outbreak of the coronavirus in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 8, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The academic year just ended for public and private schools across the nation, but for many, school never really started. Before simply moving on to the
Erie, Pennsylvania – Multiple violent brawls broke out at Waldameer Amusement Park on Memorial Day. According to Millcreek police, at least 6 different fights broke out during a 3 hour period on Monday. Waldameer owner Paul Nelson told Erie News Now that he’s disappointed about the fights because he doesn’t run his park that way.