Month: October 2021

The atmosphere for content creators with Google just reached a new freezing point. YouTube and parent company Google reportedly plan to demonetize all content from so-called “climate deniers.”  Climate experts Steven Milloy and Marc Morano bashed Google/YouTube for reportedly vowing to prohibit ads on videos questioning climate change. “This is Big Tech Collusion with the
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The September jobs report came out Friday morning and it’s worse than August’s numbers. Biden’s joke of an economy only added 194,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell by 0.4%, the US Bureau Labor Statistics reported. The ‘experts’ predicted 500,000 jobs would be added but they were wrong again. The CNBC panel was
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The New York Times building in New York City, August 3, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) In an article published by New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli on Wednesday, Times readers were told that “nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.” A correction issued on Thursday notes that the correct number is 63,000 between
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Korean Air Lines Co. aircraft sit on the tarmac at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Quarantine-free travel between Singapore and South Korea will start from Nov. 15 for vaccinated travelers, the city-state’s transport ministry announced Friday. The two countries
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At the blog Legal Insurrection, Stacey Matthews (aka Sister Toldjah) picked on PolitiFact for its incredibly lame Twitter criticism of Sen. Charles Grassley at a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 4, which Democrats call the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” In his usual Jimmy Stewart way, Grassley told leftist Assistant Attorney General Kristen
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Thursday’s deal to put off the debt-ceiling fight for a couple of months was a fittingly equivocal and inconclusive turn in the continuing battle over the Biden agenda. Its enactment involved a familiar sort
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The New York Times issued a lengthy correction after numerous mistakes in an article about coronvirus vaccinations for children, including the egregious exaggeration of coronavirus hospitalizations among U.S. children. The article by Apoorva Mandavilli documented how the U.S. is forging ahead on full vaccination for children while other countries are experimenting with just one shot
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In the Senate battle over infrastructure, Biden ditched the Biden Democrats and cast his lot with the party’s progressive wing. “We’ve got the president of the United States on our side,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday on ABC’s This Week. “Got 96% of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side.
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Traffic passes The New York Times Building in New York, June 29, 2021. (Brent Buterbaugh) 2006—New York Times public editor Byron Calame criticizes Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse for violating the paper’s ethical guidelines by asserting, in a speech at Radcliffe, that the government “had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule
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President Joe Biden is using what one court opinion called “the most dramatic weapon in OSHA’s enforcement arsenal” to back up his COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more workers.  But relying on this bureaucratic weapon could be a risky strategy in the face of litigation threats, since courts have struck down all
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A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over $600 to the IRS is under fire. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended the proposal on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” calling the collection of financial information “routine” after some in the banking community criticized it
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American singer Billie Eilish performs during the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, June 30, 2019. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) At a concert in Austin, Texas, earlier this week, the immensely popular singer Billie Eilish voiced her rather inarticulate support for legal abortion and denounced the state’s recently enacted heartbeat bill. “I am so f***ing sick and tired
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently tweeted that he believes parents should determine what their kids are taught at school, but Nikole Hannah-Jones pushed back, noting that parents are not the only people who fund public schools. She also claimed that Pompeo loathes having “an informed citizenry in a multiracial democracy.” “Believe it or
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Last month, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, was busy trying to persuade other European states to take a stand against the USA. The immediate cause of the contretemps was AUKUS, a U.S.-U.K.-Australia military agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, Australia will receive technological support
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(rarrarorro/Getty Images) The Senate approved an extension of the federal debt ceiling through December on Thursday in a 50-48 vote, averting a looming default sometime this month. Senators approved the extension after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) proposed the short-term fix. According to the proposal, Republicans did not filibuster the debt-limit extension while Democrats
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Democrats continue to push for passage of a bill giving the federal government veto power over state election laws, including those requiring voter ID and regular updates of voter registration rolls.  “Photo ID laws are not on their face invalid,” an assistant attorney general testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It really depends on
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