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[ad_1] Golf icon Jack Nicklaus endorsed President Donald Trump for next week’s presidential election and the president offered a grateful response from his Twitter account. Nicklaus tweeted his endorsement in a statement on Wednesday. “Through the years, I have been blessed to personally know several Presidents on both sides of the aisle. All were good
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[ad_1] Girl Scouts of the USA organization has issued an apology after receiving backlash for publicly congratulating Justice Amy Coney Barrett for becoming the fifth woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. What are the details? On Wednesday, the group tweeted portraits of all the women who have been chosen to sit
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[ad_1] After the New York Times published Anonymous’s op-ed, CNN’s Chris Cillizza went to bat for the newspaper in a piece titled: “Here’s one big clue to the identity of the anonymous op-ed writer.” (Hat-tip, Eddie Zipper) Here’s the relevant portion: In short: If some midlevel bureaucrat in the Trump administration comes to the Times
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[ad_1] CNN contributor and former administration bureaucrat Miles Taylor revealed Wednesday that he was the so-called “senior administration official” who wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in 2018 with many unsubstantiated accusations against President Trump. CNN’s Chris Cuomo managed to snag Taylor’s first interview since coming out and that too was filled with
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[ad_1] The district attorney in Philadelphia issued a fiery statement warning President Donald Trump about supporting uncertified poll watchers for the election. Larry Krasner issued the statement on Wednesday as a third night of violent protests were expected to erupt in the historic city. “The Trump Administration’s efforts to suppress votes amid a global pandemic
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[ad_1] 1. Reuters: Egypt says freedom of expression “stops” when Muslims offended 2. Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’ Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said. 3. Montse Alvarado: The Next Four Years: Religious freedom needed for
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[ad_1] Last week, four members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, urging her to investigate Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law after multiple professors — including the school’s interim dean — confessed to being “racist.” One of them confessed to being a “gatekeeper of white supremacy.” While
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[ad_1] The Senate Republican Conference on Wednesday released the first of a five-part documentary series, which it intends to use to take back the messaging around the government’s coronavirus response effort. The documentary, entitled “The Invisible Enemy,” gives viewers an inside look at how Senate Republicans responded to the coronavirus outbreak. Produced by the Senate
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[ad_1] The New York Times faced a wave of criticism Wednesday for hyping former “Anonymous” author Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security staffer, as a “senior” Trump administration official.  Taylor, who revealed his identity Wednesday, wasn’t even an agency chief of staff at the time he wrote the op-ed.  “I also didn’t realize the definition
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[ad_1] “It is regrettable that someone should endanger the health of other Islanders after being informed of the need to self-isolate,” Caroline Maffia, the strategic lead for contact tracing, monitoring and enforcement, said, according to Metro. Ingram was supposed to be quarantining after arriving from Salford to Jersey, Metro reported. “This fine demonstrates that we will
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[ad_1] An immigration officer administers the oath during a swearing-in of newly naturalized United States citizens in a parking lot in Santa Ana, Calif., July 29, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) On the homepage today, I discussed the recent slowdown in immigration (legal and illegal) and mentioned that it probably helped American workers. There is no question
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[ad_1] I swear to you, in spite of all the gloomy polls we’ve posted over the past two months, I’m open to the possibility that Trump wins. I think he’ll win Florida. He’s not very far behind in Pennsylvania. One would expect Ohio and Iowa and Texas, all of which he won easily four years
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[ad_1] Apple has ramped up the development of its own search engine technology as antitrust U.S. and European Union regulators scrutinize Google, according to a Financial Times report. The Silicon Valley tech giant has subtly started the transition away from its reliance on the Google search engine, The Financial Times reported. Apple’s latest software update
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[ad_1] The Great Red Wave Rising What Blue Wave? Have you noticed how loud and shrill Fake News has become in these last days before the election? The polls are screaming Biden’s ahead, Trump’s way behind. The polls were wrong in 2016 and are wrong in 2020.  We have a new factor, the “shy” Trump
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[ad_1] I can’t believe they’re going to punish him. This moron’s insistence on partying *after learning he had COVID* is so quintessentially American that it should be formally commemorated somehow. He’s practically a mascot for the country’s approach to the pandemic. Trump should make him a special guest at his final campaign rally. After some
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[ad_1] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Wednesday that under Twitter’s policy, Holocaust denials are not considered misinformation. Dorsey and other technology executives spoke Wednesday on their moderation practices before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation following Twitter’s decision to suspend the New York Post from its platform for sharing a story on Hunter
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[ad_1] The Department of Justice announced Wednesday charges against eight individuals for acting as agents of the People’s Republic of China while taking part in an illegal Chinese law enforcement operation known as Fox Hunt here in the United States.  Five of these individuals were arrested across the country this morning.  The rest are believed
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