A man from Coppell, Texas, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to receive about $24.8 million in forgivable loans from the Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic, the Justice Department announced. Dinesh Sah, 55, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money-laundering offenses, the Justice
Month: July 2021
A small business owner in Prairie Grove, Illinois was cited twice and fined $200 by the village for flying American flags outside his restaurant around the Fourth of July. Terry Trobiani, the owner of Gianelli’s, says he placed two flags along the road in front of his business to celebrate Independence Day.Just two days later,
Boston EMS medics work to resuscitate a patient on the way to the ambulance amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts, April 27, 2020. Brian Snyder | Reuters About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to new data published Friday by the Centers
Amanda Knox has claimed new film Stillwater sensationalises her life and rips off her story “without her consent” and “at the expense of her reputation”. Stillwater stars Matt Damon as a father who flies to France to help his estranged daughter, Allison, played by Abigail Breslin. She has been convicted and imprisoned for murdering her
Ya gotta love it. Here was the May 13, 2021 headline on MSNBC: Biden: ‘Get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do President Joe Biden said if you are fully vaccinated you no longer need to wear a mask, after the CDC updated guidance. Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated and be respectful of
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar rarely agrees on anything with GOP Senator Lindsey Graham. But Cuellar, whose Texas district is being swamped with illegal alien crossings, is joining with Graham to push Joe Biden to name former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to ramrod the administration’s efforts to control the influx of illegals at the southern
The Department of Justice dropped its investigation last week into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his March 2020 order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients that resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly residents. Cuomo currently faces several other probes, including a criminal investigation by the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office
A lone bird walks past the quiet Circular Quay train station during a lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus in Sydney, Australia, July 28, 2021. (Loren Elliott/Reuters) So, there’s a philosophy for dealing with the pandemic called “COVID Zero.” The idea being that a much more aggressive approach to lockdowns can extinguish the
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is an avid supporter of the “defund the police” movement, yet she is reportedly also a strong proponent of funding her own personal security force, which includes a former Blackwater contractor. Ocasio-Cortez purportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars for her own personal security in the first half of 2021, according
Bill Maher had one request regarding the Tokyo Olympics: “Please don’t make the Olympics into the Oscars.” However, the “Real Time with Bill Maher” host seems completely disheartened that the 2020 Olympics was flush with woke messaging. The liberal cable TV talk show host unleashed a rant about the “woke” Olympics, where he attacked cancel
It is obvious that the media view Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a 2024 threat; hence every discussion about COVID and the Delta variant must include an implication that Florida is a uniquely dire situation. On his Friday show, CNN’s Chris Cuomo blamed Florida for the CDC’s revised mask guidelines, saying the country was being “held hostage” because
(Tommy Flynn/Getty Images) It is astonishing how the transgender moral panic has swept actual science aside. The American Medical Association Board of Trustees (BOT) just passed a resolution that will have the AMA lobbying to end the designation of sex in all future birth certificates. The resolution distinguishes between the “Certificate of Live Birth” —
President Joe Biden touts the support of the business community for his COVID-19 vaccine policy, but leaders of organized labor, which the president identifies as his political base, aren’t happy. Requirements that both federal employees and the employees of federal contractors “attest” to their vaccination status and regularly submit to testing if not vaccinated could
It’s an oft-quoted saying: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” A fact is something done, an action performed or an event or circumstance that actually occurred. Essentially, facts are indisputable truths about people, places and events. The one seminal event that continues to fester like a boil on the
Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty Images You’ll probably have to use cryptocurrency to pay off that ransomware hacker who froze your laptop, but where else might you put all your bitcoin, ethereum and other digital coins to actual use? Tesla may still be unsure about accepting bitcoin for its electric vehicles again, yet cryptocurrency
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has said he “had a small heart attack” but will “be back soon” after he collapsed on set earlier this week. The 58-year-old was taken to hospital on Tuesday while filming the Breaking Bad spin-off show in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He tweeted on Friday: “Hi. It’s Bob. Thank you.
Canada’s Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at targeting harmful content online. If passed, the digital safety commissioner would oversee the censorship of child pornography, pro-terrorism content, hate speech, and other harmful posts the commissioner deems harmful on social media platforms. The legislation makes no distinction between child pornography and “hate speech.” It also includes
As promised, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Friday ensuring that parents, and not education bureaucrats, would be the ones to determine whether their children need to mask up when school resumes. DeSantis had declared at an event earlier in the day: “I want to empower parents to make the best decisions
The Australian government will deploy several hundred soldiers to Sydney to begin enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns Monday following a rise in delta variant infections. The troops were requested by New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller on Thursday to assist in enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns, Fuller announced in a statement. Since June, an outbreak of the delta
National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) Entries are due tonight, July 31, at ll:59 p.m. ET. “The recently published book, God and Man at Yale,” McGeorge Bundy thundered in the pages of The Atlantic, “written by William F. Buckley, Jr., a 1950 graduate of Yale University, is a savage attack on that
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly joined the Glenn Beck radio program on Friday made an important prediction about President Joe Biden’s chance of reelection in 2024. O’Reilly told Glenn that former President Donald Trump was brought down because of COVID. “if COVID had not appeared, O’Reilly stated, “he [Trump] would have won reelection.” O’Reilly went on
A bipartisan duo of lawmakers is calling for the creation of a position to tackle issues related to the nation’s southern border. “To solve the growing problem, we request a special executive appointment for border issues to ensure sufficient federal resources are allocated to overburdened U.S. border communities, and to recommend changes to our immigration
Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News pointed out that Conservative Twitter had a lot of fun with PolitiFact on Thursday when Bill McCarthy didn’t see the double meaning in his tweet “PolitiFact is hiring! Come join our misinformation team.” Poor Bill. If he’d only tweeted “misinformation-fighting team.” PolitiFact is hiring! Come join our misinformation team: https://t.co/EmBkRo23KO
Statue in Prospect Terrace Park overlooking Providence, R.I. (SeanPavonePhoto/Getty Images) Providence’s municipal-reparations scheme helps left-wing activist groups, not students trapped in Rhode Island’s union-dominated schools. It used to be referred to as the soft bigotry of low expectations: the unspoken bias among many liberals, who subconsciously believe that minority populations are not capable of succeeding
About 350 concerned residents crowded into a church in Georgetown, Delaware, on Thursday evening to hear from a panel of experts about critical race theory—one of whom likened its spread throughout American culture to Mao Zedong’s communist Cultural Revolution in China. “Today, communism is taking root in America,” speaker Xi Van Fleet said. Critical race
As we live more and more of life online, deplatforming is coming for your wallet next. One either allows wrongthink to persevere, as an extremist, or confronts wrongthink, as an anti-extremist. There is no in-between safe space of “not extremist.” The claim of “not extremist” neutrality is a mask for extremism. That’s a very slight
Merrick Garland US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday sued Texas over Governor Abbott’s order outlawing most ground transportation of illegal aliens. On Wednesday, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order banning ground transportation of illegal immigrants by anyone other than law enforcement officers. The new guidance was issued just one day after he ordered Texas National Guard troops
In an aerial view, the Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas (L) prepares to set sail from Port Miami during the first U.S. trial cruise testing COVID-19 protocols on June 20, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Royal Caribbean Cruises shares fell more than 4% Friday after six passengers on board its
Simone Biles has pulled out of another two Olympics finals, USA Gymnastics has said. The four-time Olympic gold medallist has ruled herself out of the vault and uneven bars finals in Tokyo. On Thursday, she withdrew from the all-round final – citing a desire to protect her mental health. Image: The 24-year-old has won four
CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen had a short and stormy tenure at top of Planned Parenthood, but CNN avoids mentioning it like the plague. They are not alone. Wen is now selling a new memoir called Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health, and the book information on Amazon doesn’t include it.
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