Voting rights and election integrity have become significant issues in 2021 as Democrats in Congress attempt to pass a sweeping federal election overhaul bill at the same time as many states pursue election integrity laws. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, controlled by Democrats, held a hearing on state election integrity laws provocatively titled “Jim
(fergregory/Getty Images) Yesterday President Biden formally submitted to the Senate his first tranche of judicial nominations, nine picks the White House had announced on March 30. Three of them are for circuit courts of appeals: Ketanji Brown Jackson for the D.C. Circuit, Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for the Seventh Circuit, and Tiffany Cunningham for the Federal Circuit.
Black Lives Matter militants in Minneapolis are going off the rails, even though they got the verdict that they wanted and Derek Chauvin was seemingly convicted just to appease them. In a speech before a crowd of far-left activists who stood in apparent agreement, a Black Lives Matter militant declared that they are going to
In this article ISRG THC IBKR CSX NFLX Signage outside the Netflix office building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, on Monday, April 19, 2021. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Tuesday: Netflix — Shares of the streaming giant dipped 10.4% after the
A jury has unanimously convicted Derek Chauvin of the murder of George Floyd. Former Minneapolis police officer Chauvin had denied charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But after 10 and a half hours of deliberations, the jury convicted him of all charges. Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died while being restrained
The former eight-term president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Agency, the organization that puts on the Golden Globes awards show every year, is in hot water for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Philip Berk, the former head of the HFPA and current member, is in “deep trouble” for spreading
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Podcast This one is a little confusing if you didn’t listen to last week’s episodes. Jesse Kelly is my guest and we originally tried to record an entire episode last week but ran into technical difficulties. That would have been Episode 116, which ended up being about
The Texas State Senate passed a bill last week that would eliminate the practice of taxpayer-funded lobbying, and the House looks poised to pass it as well. Few states have enacted such statutes, making the Lonestar State one to watch in the coming weeks. This has been a long-running legislative effort, with a similar bill
(Screenshot via Twitter) Every jury trial operates on two levels: there is the serious question of what the verdict should be on the granular details of the evidence – not just who wins, but how much they get of what they are asking – and the broader risk of the jury doing something bizarre or
PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor questioned White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki over why the Biden administration was not defending Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) comments urging protestors to “get more confrontational” — even calling on the White House to endorse the Democratic lawmaker’s controversial remarks. What are the details? Waters sparked uproar over the weekend when
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) issued a bizarre emotional appeal where she thanked George Floyd for “sacrificing” his life for the cause of justice after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial was announced. Floyd, a black man, died in police custody after former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck during his
Moments after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of manslaughter and murder in the death of George Floyd, far-left MSNBC contributor and journalism professor Jason Johnson went on an unhinged rant saying he wasn’t “happy,” “pleased,” or “satifisf[ied]” with the “cultural make-up call” because there must be “radical reform” in order for
What exactly is the point of the America First Policy Institute? WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 18: U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (C) speaks as Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Brooke Rollins (L), news commentator Van Jones (2nd L), Senior White House Adviser and son-in-law of President Donald Trump Jared Kushner (3rd L),
Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the black leaders write in the letter,
Former vice president Mike Pence attends the inauguration of President Biden in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021. (Melina Mara/Reuters) The head of publishing company Simon & Schuster refused a petition by employees to cancel a book by former vice president Mike Pence, in a letter to staff on Monday. “As a publisher in this polarized
Recently, Mike Lindell of MyPillow.com talked with Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft about getting to the bottom of the Election 2020 debacle. Mike has been a leader of the effort to uncover what happened, investigating and documenting the fraud that took place. It was an extraordinary interview (watch it here)! Mike has made available to
In this article VABK Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity comes into land during a glide test flight on May 1, 2020. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic shares fell in trading Tuesday after Ark Invest’s space exploration ETF sold nearly half its stake in the space tourism company. Cathie Wood’s firm sold 275,204 shares of Virgin Galactic from
It’s Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, and while pandemic restrictions have seen some celebs showing up on their laptops for other ceremonies in slightly more casual attire than they perhaps would in person (yes, we’re looking at you, Jason Sudeikis), rest assured the Oscars is pulling out all the stops to bring back a
On Saturday evening, CNN host Pamela Brown showed a classic double standard in her combative treatment of a Republican guest in contrast with her sympathetic reaction to a Democrat an hour later as she presided over segments to discuss possible new gun restrictions by Congress. According to Brown, the Second Amendment deprives us of our “right not
California was arguably America’s greatest success story, right up until it wasn’t. It might be difficult or impossible to pinpoint the exact moment that California’s long, slow decline began, but surely we can pick April 18, 2021, as the day it became undeniable to even the most fervent progressive or statist (but I repeat myself).
Legislators in 17 states have introduced legislation, known as Defend the Guard, which aims to make the U.S. Congress obey the Constitution with regards to war powers. The state legislation is a project of BringOurTroopsHome.US, a group led by 13-year veteran Dan McKnight, whose service ended after an injury in Afghanistan, which opposes the ongoing
The U.S. Capitol during a morning rainstorm on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) When Republicans talk about the future of their party these days, they tend to talk in terms of what will happen more than what they will do. That’s even true of many Republicans elected officials. Everyone is
A local ABC News affiliate in Salt Lake City has gone silent and is refusing to comment as one of its reporters deleted tweets about his doxxing and harassing of a local paramedic over his tiny donation to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund. What are the details? The news outlet, KTVX-TV, as well as its
Activists in Georgia are demanding a new boycott of Home Depot, not over something the company said or did, but precisely because they believe the home improvement retail store did not disavow Georgia new election law with strong enough language. What is the background? Critics of Georgia’s voting law — which has been the subject
The same CNN who praised a “mostly peaceful” George Floyd riot last Summer as a building burned behind their reporter on the scene, revealed their continued commitment to protecting left-wing rioters again on Tuesday. After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an anti-rioting bill into law yesterday, the network brought on an ACLU lawyer to criticize
One of the more startling manifestations of the Biden administration’s subserviency to liberal advocacy groups is its sudden dismissal of the Commission on Unalienable Rights appointed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the withdrawal of the Commission’s measured and thoughtful report. The uninitiated may be puzzled by the State Department’s involvement in the issuance
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss a purported “assault on the right to vote.” The hearing, dubbed “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” comes as the far left continues to criticize Georgia’s new election integrity law. Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the 2018 governor’s
A person receives a dose of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Chicago, Ill., April 6, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The regulatory agency regularly hamstrings the development and use of essential medicines. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration reported that six women of childbearing age who received the one-dose Johnson
One thing that has dogged Joe Biden for the last few years is his diminished mental health. Many people have speculated that he has dementia. He certainly does not seem as sharp as he used to. A new poll reinforces this idea. The Washington Free Beacon reports: TRENDING: Stanford Study Results: Facemasks are Ineffective to
In this article PM BATS-GB MO Marlboro cigarettes, a product of Philip Morris International Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tobacco stocks tumbled Monday on a report that the Biden administration is considering whether to cap nicotine levels in cigarettes. The report, which cited people familiar with the matter, was published in the Wall