Month: June 2021

I can only imagine what happened behind the scenes on Thursday after Joe Biden’s bizarre behavior during a White House press conference. On three different occasions, apropos of nothing, Biden leaned into the microphone and whispered to reporters. When asked about additional relief for families, Biden whispered toward PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor: “I got them
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The Federal Reserve System has come under fire in the last few months for extending itself into areas outside its Congressional “dual mandate” of stabilizing prices and maximizing employment. There are two areas where the Fed is being accused of overreaching. The first area is economic equality. For example, the Federal Reserve Bank of New
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks before signing legislation passed by the House during an enrollment ceremony to memorialize the people killed in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Fla, on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) There’s lots of agreement in Washington these days that Congress is broken. But
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Democratic leaders in south Florida are pushing back against a Washington Post reporter who suggested Saturday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) should be blamed for delaying the emergency response to the tragic condominium collapse in a Miami suburb. Interestingly, the false accusation came as the media are directing increased attacks at DeSantis, claiming he
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Officials at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, New Jersey, asked valedictorian Bryce Dershem to remove a gay pride flag draped over his gown at the graduation ceremony earlier this month, WCAU-TV reported. But the station said Dershem didn’t comply. It was a sign of things to come. What happened? Like other high school valedictorians
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The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates why a lack of knowledge about China’s problems can become the world’s problems, says Rep. Steve Chabot, regarding one of the world’s most powerful, yet also most secretive and oppressive regimes.  “No one fully understands what is happening in China. On the one hand, China seems to be an unstoppable juggernaut
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On Friday The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported that the final Maricopa County ballots were inspected inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. Audit volunteers slammed a box closed and cheered in celebration after the final ballots were inspected. The Gateway Pundit also reported that on Monday or soon after a preliminary report will
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A container ship docked at India’s Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) in Mundra, India. Sam Panthaky | AFP | Getty Images India’s second wave of coronavirus outbreak will affect the country’s infrastructure firms to varying degrees, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Power companies and ports are expected to better withstand the impact of pandemic-led
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As more Americans get vaccinated and as COVID-19 cases and deaths decline, it’s hard to believe that there are still people talking about “vaccine passports” as though they are something we might actually need. “The Biden administration shouldn’t be so squeamish about vaccine verification,” Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University and
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Former Attorney General William Barr spoke out against former President Donald Trump in an interview that was published on Sunday, calling Trump’s claims of election fraud “bulls**t.” What is the background? After Trump lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and alleged he lost because of voter fraud, Barr authorized the Justice Department
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On Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Brian Williams seemed to suggest that Fox News be banned from military bases because Tucker Carlson responded to Gen. Mark Milley’s recent defense of Critical Race Theory by declaring ”He’s not just a pig. He’s stupid.” Later, Williams tried to tie concerns about CRT in the military to Vladimir Putin. Addressing
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Black Lives Matter demonstrators during a march in St. Paul, Minn., March 19, 2021. (Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters) That their disproportionate numbers don’t exercise progressives more remains one of the paradoxes of our time. The idea of equity, as everyone knows, is all the rage. It holds that any racial disparity is evidence of racism and also
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision, Fulton v. Philadelphia, is justifiably getting mixed reviews. Catholic Social Services sued the city of Philadelphia, through the Philadelphia Archdiocese, for canceling its 50-year contract with the Catholic social services agency because it refuses to certify same-sex couples as foster families for the purpose of foster care. The Supreme Court
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In this article CMCSA Still from Universal’s “F9.” Universal Universal’s “F9” is paving the way for 2021’s summer box office. Over its opening weekend, the Fast and Furious film tallied $70 million in box office receipts, the most of any movie released in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The previous record holder was Paramount’s
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“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”—Matthew 7:15 In recent weeks, big-name Republican governors have signed bills and made statements assuring their conservative base they will not force COVID-19 vaccines on them. However, what appears to be good on the surface may not be so
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(Pixabay) Our pal Andrew Stuttaford tweeted a story about a CRISPR genetic engineering experiment from the Financial Times. I checked it out, and given the frequent criticisms I have penned here about sometimes out-of-control biotechnological research, I thought it was worth a few moments to illustrate how much of what is being done is perfectly
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The highest court in Texas has ruled that Facebook can be held liable for sex trafficking that is conducted on its social network. The court ruling against the tech giant arrives after sex trafficking teenage victims allege they were targeted on Facebook. Facebook’s legal team argued that the social network was protected against liability due
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The National Archives Rotunda, the place where America’s founding documents are prominently displayed in Washington, D.C., is yet another example of “systemic racism,” according to a new report. Amid racial unrest last summer, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferrier established a racism task force at the National Archives and Records Administration. To little
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A front-page story from Sunday’s New York Times, “Biden’s Push for Racial Equity Hits Legal and Political Snags,” opened and closed with affecting stories of hardship under sympathetic headlines. The story virtually ignored the central reality of racial discrimination within Biden’s “American Rescue Plan.” A program offering debt relief to black farmers only is also under scrutiny. At
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