A crew works at the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline near the town of Kingisepp, Leningrad Region, Russia, June 5, 2019. (Anton Vaganov/Reuters) Declaring that “now is the time to de-escalate,” President Biden announced a suite of sanctions and other reprisal measures as a response to the SolarWinds hack and Moscow’s interference in the 2020
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Roughly two months after banning Project Veritas, Twitter has permanently suspended the investigative outlet’s founder James O’Keefe. O’Keefe’s ban comes after Project Veritas released undercover video of a top CNN executive bragging about helping Joe Biden win the presidency. “Look what we did, we got Trump out. I am 100 percent going to say it,
I don’t know about you, but I really very seriously need this week’s “Five O’Clock Somewhere.” We started this podcast a year ago, with the idea of providing a little relief from the lockdown blues. But I’m over those and hope you are, too. Now, however, the Biden Blues is what’s wearing me down. As
Joe Biden signed executive order (EO 14023) on April 9, 2021, which establishes a “Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.” Biden has signed a total of 39 executive orders so far per federal registry of executive orders. EO 14023 was published April 14, 2021, and its Commission membership “shall be composed of
Dr. Anthony Fauci attends a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the COVID-19 response on Capitol Hill, March 18, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Reuters) There is, if you’re looking for it, an abundance of good news in our fight against COVID-19. As John mentioned, 80 percent of people over the age of
Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio on March, 1996. (Photo by Laura Patterson/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images) “A prophet,” said Mgr. Ronald Knox, “is one who speaks out. He must not wrap up his meaning; he must not expect success.” Like most prophets, Jim Traficant, the legendary Ohio congressman who would have turned 80 next month
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta seems to have been impressed by the opinion of the former CDC director Robert Redfield during an interview with him in March when he stated that the COVID-19 virus most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. So impressed, in fact, that Gupta appears to believe that it has shaken the
Joe Biden announced that all U.S. troops in Afghanistan will withdraw and a nice, neat, symmetrical ceremony will be held on September 11 to mark the occasion. This will end the longest, costliest (in dollars) war the United States has ever fought. The 2,500 troops and 1,000 special forces, plus mountains of their equipment, will
At one point in time, Americans were rugged individuals who thought for themselves. Today, well…. “I’m a Marine so I’m not really worried about anything. I’ll take the shot if they say it’s good for me. If Dr. (Anthony) Fauci says take the shot, I’ll take the shot. I trust the science,” Paul Doucett told
Kristen Clarke, President Biden’s nominee to be assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, speaks in Wilmington, Del., January 7, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Yesterday, Texas senator John Cornyn asked Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s nominee for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, about a letter she wrote promoting pseudoscientific racist theories in The Harvard
The New York Times thinks it knows how its great rival, the Wall Street Journal, can boost its readership and improve its strategic position in the realm of big media: It should become more like the New York Times. That’s the message from an extensive article by Edmund Lee in the latest Times “Sunday Business”
Late Tuesday afternoon on Deadline: White House, MSNBC host host Nicolle Wallace teed up far-left charlatan, journalism professor, and MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson to double down on his latest cri de coeur that not only should police be defunded, but they should be abolished entirely (and ostensibly leave the public open to attacks from criminals without consequences).
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Mastercard has added new rules for banks processing payments from pornography sites following allegations that Pornhub allowed sexual exploitation on its platform. Mastercard’s updated requirements state that banks must ensure that porn websites document the age and identity of all persons depicted in adult content as well as for those uploading the content. There also
David Petraeus, the former commanding general of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, fears that the cost of pulling the remaining 3,500 U.S. troops out of Afghanistan could be a terrorist attack against the United States in the near future. Defense One reports: “I understand the frustrations very much that have led to the decision,” said Petraeus.
While the media is constantly accusing the right of being domestic terrorists, left-wing extremism is routinely ignored by the media. A Democrat congresswoman’s cry for policing and prisons to be abolished should make the news but as often is the case, it was ignored by ABC, NBC and CBS. Following the fatal police shooting of
It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of chipmaking to America’s national security. From computer networks to networked jet fighters to missile defense, everything we rely on to deter or win wars with near-peer opponents like China runs on silicon. For decades, America had Intel producing the world’s fastest computer chips, giving us a leg
Pro-life groups are accusing the Food and Drug Administration of “ignoring the science” by removing restrictions that prevented abortion drugs from being delivered by mail. The Susan B. Anthony List and the Charlotte Lozier Institute said Tuesday that the FDA’s decision to remove restrictions on abortion drugs “ignores the risk of increased mortality and morbidity
Echelon Insights has released a poll gauging Americans’ perceptions of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause: A quick check-in with U.S. adults reveals that contrary to the prevailing view on Twitter, the decision to pause the J&J vaccine💉 due to a small number of blood clotting issues actually makes Americans more, not less, confident in
“Listen to the scientists!” the left has screamed during the entire pandemic. “But not those scientists!” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) blasted Google and YouTube for censoring a March 18 COVID-19 roundtable discussion with several doctors, and then held another roundtable discussion with those same doctors. The March 18 video included Dr. Scott Atlas, a
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended a “pause” on the administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because six of the 6.8 million people who took the vaccine have experienced a “rare & severe” type of blood clot. Former President Donald Trump slammed the
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the United States running on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server software used to provide enterprise-level e-mail service. Through January and February 2021, certain hacking groups exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Assembly Hall at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) Last evening, a group of more than 40 Republican congressmen led by Representative Chip Roy (R., Texas) introduced a bill that would prohibit continued U.S. funding of the United Nations
Meme shared by Ricky Vaughn that the federal government argues was illegal. Douglass Mackey inherited an ordinary upbringing in the small town of Waterbury, Vermont, home to some 5,000 souls. It’s even the site of Ben & Jerry’s first factory, built in 1985. After graduating from Harwood Union High School, he attended nearby Middlebury College,
On Monday’s The 11th Hour show, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson went into an anti-police rant in which he called for law enforcement in the U.S. to be ”abolished” and rebuilt, insisted Democrats should run on this as a campaign issue because they wouldn’t face blowback from voters, and illustrated an aversion to mathematics when he claimed that
All of the Left’s Favorite Scientists Are Paste-Eaters The social media world — Twitter in particular — has been lacking the kind of goofy fun that once made it all worth hanging around a lot. Yeah, I’m still on all day but that’s a work thing. I used to be on Twitter because it was
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Ohio may enforce its ban on abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 9-7 decision that Ohio’s law was “valid in all conceivable cases” and that it did not substantially block a woman’s ability to get an abortion.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sits in front of a picture of George Floyd displayed during Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis on March 29 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) The Chauvin defense called its big witness Tuesday afternoon, retired federal and state law-enforcement officer Barry Brodd, an expert in police training and the use
Vice President Kamala Harris is not a controversial figure, not to The Washington Post. They’ve added a whole staff to champion “diversity and inclusion,” and that’s Kamala for you, line-dancing backward and forward. So we get stories like this gem from design writer Jura Koncius: “Vice President Harris is making her mark on the Washington-area
The Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has demonstrated exceptional efficacy against severe illness and death from the virus. This morning the FDA decided to pause using the vaccine because of a rare but severe form of blood clot experienced by a minimal number of individuals: So, why this is happening is a legitimate question. All