Republicans and Democrats alike say they’re horrified by how “60 Minutes” portrayed actions to fight COVID-19 taken by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.  On Sunday night, “60 Minutes” aired an edited exchange with DeSantis implying that the Republican governor favored grocery store chain Publix with coronavirus vaccines because Publix had donated to his campaign.   The Daily
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sits in front of a picture of George Floyd displayed during Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 29, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) If you’re watching the Chauvin trial on Court-TV, you are probably baffled by some of the commentators, who seem confused about when leading questions
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1. As Myanmar’s security forces crush anti-coup protests, more and more children are dying The Myanmar military’s targeting of children, civilians and peaceful protesters, human rights experts say, constitute acts of terrorism, designed to subjugate a population that has risen up against the army’s seizure of power. After an especially bloody weekend, protesters and human
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Self-awareness apparently remains in short supply in some sectors of society. Because Dr. Anthony Fauci and CNN’s Brian Stelter are among the featured speakers at a Politifact event next month titled “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking.” One might inquire why Fauci and Stelter — both of whom have been accused of not
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Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry is demanding that President Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, explain why his agency bypassed oversight of a grant that funded bat-based coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. What’s the background? News broke last summer that Fauci’s agency, the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
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More than 20 Republican state attorneys general have teamed up to oppose the energy agenda promoted by President Joe Biden.  Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss two lawsuits that he and other attorneys general have filed against the Biden administration in an effort to further American energy independence. Carr
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A family of migrants walk after crossing the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves into U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, March 30, 2021. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters) On the menu today: The media’s interest in the border crisis waned in the past week, but the problem isn’t going away and may
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Republican Minority Senate leader McConnell provides another example of how out of touch he is.  McConnell was the first to claim President Trump lost the 2020 election despite tons of evidence that the election was stolen and now he’s supporting the contradictory, dangerous and insane Dr. Fauci. Mediate reported yesterday: Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) affirmed
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It was October 30, 2008, days away from the presidential election. Then-Senator Barack Obama was in Columbia, Mo., when he declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” It was terrifying because I knew he meant it. And America truly did emerge from the Obama years transformed—almost unrecognizable. He’d
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I feel like it’s not entirely healthy that an ad consisting of nothing more than search terms can provoke an emotional response. On the other hand, as many others remarked when this spot ran during the Final Four this weekend, the message here is far superior to the CDC’s. Last week Rochelle Walensky’s shop told
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As Alexandra DeSanctis notes, it is disappointing that Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson “vetoed a bill that would ban doctors from performing gender transition surgery or offering puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors.” The law prohibits minors from making all sorts of decisions that adults may make, most of them far less irrevocable than genital
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A video went viral Monday showing a family being temporarily booted from a Spirit Airlines flight over alleged mask violations, sparking outrage on social media as a flight attendant was seen noting that the couple’s 2-year-old was not wearing a facial covering while she was eating. The airline said the situation had nothing to do
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“Conservatism, Unmasked,” is what at first glance you might have called the Philadelphia Society’s annual national meet-up and gabfest in Fort Worth, held, by long custom, for the not unrelated aims of defining conservative challenges while renewing friendships and vows of common purpose and commitment. Not a face mask did I spot during the late
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas participates in taking a new family photo with his fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Today Justice Thomas appended an intriguing concurrence to a short decision concerning whether President Trump had violated the First Amendment by blocking a limited
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If you can believe it, Multnomah County’s pro-antifa District Attorney, Mike Schmidt, has actually decided to do his job. Though Schmidt has dismissed most of the charges against the rioters over the last year, a grand jury has returned a 28-count indictment against Malik Fard Muhammed for his role in multiple riots last fall. This
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